You might not know that you've had something stolen from you until days or weeks after the fact,

stolen grains never grow

What then is there left for me to do? Not count the weeks, the days and the hours which will bring me again into her sweet company. . . .

What you've got are a whole series of requirements and processes and that takes days, if not weeks.

The sense is we should be able to wrap this up in a matter of days, not weeks,

I knew we were going to hear something eventually. But after two weeks and two days of not hearing something, it was exhausting.