Even with the help of some contract chemists, perfecting Spillinex took the better part of a year.
Soon after, Coastline started renting the part of the yard and eventually took part of the premises and the illustrious name before floating on the stock exchange in 1997.
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York sold the last batch of securities it took on as part of the 2008 bailout American International Group Thursday, a symbolic accomplishment but hardly the final word on the U.S. rescue of the insurer.
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After all, it took the company the better part of a year to release the CloudMobile.
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Of course, an hour and a half is still an impressive shift from years' past, when an upfront took the better part of three hours.
He was the scout and manager for all three Lord of the Rings films and for The Hobbit trilogy. (Scouting for The Hobbit alone, he said, took the better part of four years).
It took the better part of a decade for dangerous heart side effects to show up in Seldane, an antihistamine made by the company that became Aventis (nyse: AVE - news - people ).
Milovan Djilas ... described the exploits of a Montenegrin who took part in the slaughter of Moslems following the First World War.
In 1976, paranoid about the communist threat, the king appeared to condone the growth of the right-wing vigilante movement whose members later took part in the slaughter of unarmed student protesters.
By contrast, the sharing of data among European astronomers who took part in the tracking of the 1680 comet looks surprisingly modern.
Most of the regiments that took part are stationed at the home of the British Army in Aldershot, while some have long associations with Winchester.
It took the United States the better part of two hundred years to give all its citizens the right to vote and full protection under the law.
Under the law, members of the paramilitary forces who took part in the demobilization process and gave a full confession of their crimes would receive a maximum sentence of eight years.
"We believe the call made by the Bishops' Conference today is aimed at the sectors of the opposition and the high echelons of the Church who took active part in the 2002 coup attempt (against President Hugo Chavez), " he said.
Mr Miller's bill was helped on to the next stage by dozens of Labour backbenchers who took part in the debate, many of whom might normally have spent Friday in their constituencies.
Soon, a core group of six senators formed and met five times in the following weeks in the offices of Schumer and McCain, the source said, adding that Flake and Bennet also took part in some of the meetings and were the last to agree to the proposal.
To wit: the idea to have Bono participate took no convincing on the part of Antoine to his father.
Eleven of the 12 surviving members of the team took part Friday, with Jackson getting cheers in what he thought was his first time at Madison Square Garden without being involved in a game since 1986.
Jesse Livermore knew this and it took me the better part of 14 years to learn and respect this.
In all of our many conversations that took place over the better part of the past decade, I never asked Prof.
Deputies of Legislative chamber of Oliy Majlis, scholars, research officers of Institute of Geological sciences and geologic engineering, representatives of other scientific-educational institutions, international organizations, ecological movement of Uzbekistan and mass media took part in the work of the seminar.
Pope Benedict XVI, speaking at an anniversary mass in St Peter's Square, attended by a tiny group of surviving clerics like himself who actually took part in the work of the Council, deplored what he called a "desertification" of spiritual life during the years that have elapsed since the end of the Council in 1965.
The heads of state and government and thousands of World War II veterans took part in the ceremonies amid one of the biggest security operations staged on French soil.
The market is heavily reliant on London and the south-east: 47% of residential transactions took place in this part of the country in 2011.
The Scottish Borders was one of the parts of Scotland which took part in a pilot programme of free school meals in primaries.
During the 4th annual UN Alliance of Civilizations Forum, specialists from UNESCO took part in the discussions on freedom of expression, where the focus was on journalism education and youth communication, and also on the role of education in sustainable development, which explored the relevance of education to sustainable development as well as the promotion of cultural diversity and intercultural understanding.
The deal took place as part of a transaction in which Hayes took his company public by merging it into the already public Access Beyond, a small vendor of networking hardware.
Together with other UN Agencies working in the field of ESD, the DESD Secretariat of UNESCO took part in a reflection workshop held in Nairobi on 1 - 2 March 2010.
We hope that the events that took place in that part of the world will convince all those concerned of the necessity to abide by the rule of law and respect the human rights of all peoples.
In what he called "the greatest honor of my public life, " this morning the Vice President took part in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknowns and spoke at the Memorial Amphitheater at Arlington National Cemetery.
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