No one is sure when that will be and the patience of many homeowners is growing short.

Unfortunately it was taking longer than he had ought, and his patience was growing thin.

When she needed food her patience grew short and so, Will had noticed, did her sentences.

He had been listening with surprising attention, but now it seemed his youthful patience was growing thin.

My patience is growing short where you are concerned.

But my patience even now grows thin and the hour of the cat is near at hand.

After a year Triat's patience grew thin and he demanded to see a working model.

"I think his patience and confidence has grown in his team a lot," Jackson said.

Few modern gardeners have the patience or the space to grow palms.

And my patience has grown to meet its limitations, Phi-oo it is who does all the talking.