The advocates say their patience may run thin if reforms do not proceed.

Their patience had run out and tonight they would come for him.

"I figured your patience would be running thin," he said with a twist of a smile.

When Peter's patience ran out, Jack was there to step in.

Now, as was too frequently the case, his patience was fast running out.

Only when the patience of her ministers was running short would she be forced to make up her mind.

Iraq has been under notice from the international community for over a decade and our patience on the issue of disarmament is running very thin.

Not surprisingly, their patience for handing money to Scotland is running thin.

It was a shame that his patience ran out just as we were getting a team together.

The endowment and the parents' patience are running low.