1.   It seemed to take two lifetimes for the group to climb past them, but finally they passed from sight if not sound.

2.   Be it a selection of flags of the World or top sports stars, it could take a lifetime to collect a complete set.

3.   As she emerges from her ordeal, it remains a blip of unimaginable horror that will take a lifetime for her to assimilate.

4.   But it would take a lifetime for the weight of his words to sink in.

5.   But repairing a relationship after an affair can take a lifetime.

6.   But the next Winter Games were four years away, four more years in a journey that had already taken a lifetime.

7.   Even so, Mrs. Kane said it would probably take a lifetime for her ex-husband to pay the child support.

8.   For the survivors, the healing could take a lifetime.

9.   He noted that it took a lifetime to publish the papers of Thomas Jefferson.

10.   His boxwood creations form an amazing and surreal landscape that took a lifetime to plan and create.