Now, though - with ailments and goodbyes behind us - it's time to start getting on with it.
We don't understand why Welsh Secretary David Jones isn't getting on with it.
Waiting for the deployment, living with it hanging over us, is much harder than just getting on with it.
There is a lot more work to be done over the coming years, and we are getting on with it.
We know what we have to do to get ourselves back with the franchise application and it's a matter of getting on with it.
Just getting on with it, muddling through as we do.
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Craig Middle, a councillor in Tonypandy, said people had not been given any warning that their water would be off for an extended period but were "getting on with it".
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But the best schools are getting on with it.
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Before he was led away Quinn said he was 'never one to walk away from a decision, I've always been a proactive person, I may as well be getting on with it.
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"My agent told me there was some interest about a week ago and I think the clubs have just been getting on with it and speaking to each other ever since, " explained Lawrence.
Because Hispanics in the US are not a homogeneous community, they waste time debating which of their mother countries has more clout in the US, rather than getting on with it and investing in themselves.
With so much CRM now entirely based on software, this tends to fall on IT staff with the view that getting this information is a database and knowledge capture problem.
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Philips has been keeping things relatively simple with its GoGear line as of late, but it looks to be getting back to full-on PMPs with its latest pair: the GoGear Ariaz and GoGear Opus.
But with mobile, it keeps on getting faster and faster and faster and I keep on turning back to history repeating itself.
So too, Fred Kaplan at Slate online magazine claimed that the leaks showed that the Obama administration's foreign policy is successful because it succeeded in getting China on board with UN sanctions against Iran.
Though we do not believe that the acquisition will provide Priceline a substantial edge over other OTA?s in the global market, we feel that getting Kayak on board will help it close the gap with Expedia in the U.S. market.
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From then on, it was all Brazilian smiles until my little burst of cheering coincided with the message getting out that it had all gone wrong for them.
The past couple of years, most of that has been spent on fixing problems with the shuttle and getting ready to launch it again.
He split the non-college-graduate vote 50-50 with Clinton compared to getting 42 percent of it on Super Tuesday.
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So how have we ended up with the same government both getting it absolutely right on one side and completely wrong on the other?
Quintiles has also expanded its business model to also include getting royalties on some drugs it helps develop and sell, including with Eli Lilly and Allergan.
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His meeting with Carwyn Jones was "business-like and cordial" (direct quotes from both Joneses as it happens) with the two men getting on "extremely well" on a personal level.
It might strike you as a government getting on with its job, one that is, in this case, about speculating on the rent in London, in order to accumulate jobs and contracts in Wales.
Like anywhere, it's full of ordinary people just getting on with thier personal, complicated lives.
Well, Michele, it's a bill that deals with getting tougher on enforcing border laws.
It is just a case of knuckling down and getting on with some hard work.
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Asked what the European Commission's main priority should be, the top answer, given by 58% of respondents, was that it ought to concentrate on getting member states to comply fully with single-market legislation.
Instead of focusing SOLELY on getting product to the floor and getting it out the door, with incremental improvements like improving margins and lower costs, Sears and JCPenney need to be acutely aware of how their product is being used, what needs their product fulfills, and what people think of it, overall.
"I think in terms of getting people to respond, especially with the new race question on the census form, it's excellent, " said Ramona Douglass, president of the Association of MultiEthnic Americans, which represents interracial families and multi-racial people.
And the 10% increase in mortgage lending, with current account customers on the rise, suggests it's getting at least that bit right.
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