11.   Federal officials would not say why the inquiry took so long.

12.   Federal investigators and other state investigators say that the federal inquiry has taken so long for several reasons.

13.   Garcetti said at a brief news conference Wednesday morning that hundreds of other cases were being reviewed as possibly tainted, and said the inquiry would take many months.

14.   House-to-house inquiries were also taking place.

15.   His inquiries take him from Zen meditation sessions in a Manhattan town house to a lunch of sea-urchin eggs in a restaurant on the coast of Maine.

16.   Nor was the Watergate inquiry taking place in an environment where the presumption was that everything would somehow leak to the press.

17.   Prosecutors said Thursday that their inquiry could take months.

18.   Serious scientific inquiry does not take place because society views the condition as a moral failing or criminal matter, Berlin said.

19.   She said FEC inquiries routinely take years.

20.   She said the inquiry could take anywhere from a few days to a couple of weeks.