When oil prices stay too high for too long, they choke out economic growth.

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However he has said he will request a rescue if Spain's borrowing costs stay too high for too long.

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He said hospitals were not places "where people should live" and there were "far too many people with learning disabilities or autism in hospital and they stay there for far too long - sometimes for years".

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Judging that students were being asked to stay at university for too long, Mr Berlusconi's previous government introduced optional, three-year degree courses.

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The two banks, especially Commerzbank, look too small to stay single for long.

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Inflation is low and unlikely to pick up, which means that the Federal Reserve will probably keep short-term rates at their present low level for a long while and long-term rates are likely to stay down too.

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Those who stay too long often get caught in a rush for the exits and lose a lot of their gains.

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But the Civic is too good a nameplate, and Honda too good a company, to stay on the canvas for long.

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While increasingly faster communications are here to stay, face-to-face skills have been a staple for getting business done for too long to think they will ever go out of style altogether.

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