41.  Although I had long since given up going to Mass in Ireland, I began to go to the Spanish Mass or the French Mass in St. Gregory's.

42.  Despite its drawbacks as a malodorous garbage heap, Fresh Kills has long maintained a certain cachet for the city's sanitation workers.

43.  DeSisto said other telephone services have long subsidized the 10-cent pay phone call.

44.  Despite a calamity no skyscraper ever has been designed to withstand, they stood "long enough for a lot of people to get out."

45.  Democratic Sen. Paul Simon complains that the Senate Special Whitewater Committee has lasted longer than the O.J. Simpson trial.

46.  Democrats _ several of whom supported a single security agency long before the Bush administration _ said they were strongly behind the concept, but had their own issues.

47.  Democrats _ who long had to grapple with Clinton's own efforts to distance himself from them _ were enjoying the Republican divisions.

48.  Customers at the cash register think they've waited too long.

49.  Customers' complaints against the firm took slightly longer, beginning to trickle in a month or so later, he adds.

50.  Customers of Schwab and other firms have found themselves waiting longer to gain access to broker Web sites, move from page to page and execute trades.