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1 If you killed him, you might languish for years in one of the royal prisons.
2 Brazil's judicial system has a reputation for being disorganized and it is common for court cases to languish for years without being resolved.
3 Too busy with the next victim, welfare workers also have little time to follow up with those children, leaving them to languish for years .
4 Merrill Lynch & Co.'s Kenneth Bruce on Friday also told its clients to sell shares of the companies, noting that earnings could languish for years .
5 Needed legislation, including laws on the oil sector, have languished for years .
6 The plan languished for years , with draft laws flying back and forth.
7 Untold numbers of political prisoners have languished for years in captivity.
8 But the film languished for years over problems with synchronizing the visuals and the audio.
9 The sector languished for years after the Asian financial crisis, when companies shifted to resources from manufacturing.
10 Guns that had languished for years behind the dusty glass of display cases were now marked "Sold".
11 The talks have languished for years , in part because Argentina has dragged its heels over which goods it wants included.
12 This was composed of more than five hundred Christian captives, many of whom had languished for years in Moorish dungeons.
13 Diocletian languished for years the victim of various maladies, and is said to have abruptly terminated his life by suicide.
14 Some elements tackle issues which have been languishing for years due to their political sensitivity, such as tax and insolvency regimes.
15 For example, he said, a cycling route between Wellington and Lower Hutt had languished for years , because of a lack of funding.
16 The maths figure is down on 2008 and the chemistry and physics numbers have languished for years , but what is going wrong?
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