"Being able to help these new teachers makes me feel that my 32 years of experience have finally paid off," she said.

"I felt like someone was finally paying attention to people my age with physical problems."

However, when the bad news continued to arrive for several weeks, he finally paid attention.

"I've been to three banks now and still have nothing but I hope that this bank will be able to finally pay me," he said.

It was difficult to remember how long he had waited, on that day when the waiting finally paid off.

I believe it is time that more attention was finally paid to this state of affairs.

I finally paid the $2.99 to support the developer because he does such a great job with it.

The city finally paid $29,000 to settle her law suit.

Somebody finally paid attention to the detectors, and called me.

All my hard work has finally paid off and I'm absolutely ecstatic.