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be only a matter of time

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be only a matter of time
if you say that it is only a matter of time before something happens, you mean that you are sure it is going to happen, although you do not know when. It is only a matter of time before he is forced to resign. (usually + before) I know she will be a great novelist. It is only a matter of time.
See also: matter, only, time

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The argument that the Palestinian population is and always has been growing at a much faster rate than that of Israeli Jews, and that it will be only a matter of time until Palestinians form a majority and gain control of the levers of power, is best left, she said, to Ariel Sharon and the "academics" at Israel's Herzliya conference who refer to Palestinians as a "demographic threat.
 
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