Would I benefit from leaving it in a drawer for a few months, or even years?

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So I had this footage from maybe six years ago, five years ago, and I put it in a drawer.

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So naturally I bought it and put it away in a drawer until winter ended.

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You keep it filed in a drawer of your consciousness, like a short story that never worked after the opening lines.

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Everyone in this hamlet, it seemed, had just found a sixteen- or twenty-three-cent stamp in a dusty drawer, and had chosen today to supplement it up to viability using car-seat nickels and pennies.

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Then put the paper in a drawer somewhere, forget about it, and come back to it in a week.

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Even on Saturday, when Keane had been suckered into a red card by Jason McAteer - hardly the sharpest knife in the drawer when it comes to the game's black arts - Ferguson's first instinct was a defensive one.

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Finally, it should linger on clothes that have been folded and placed in a drawer.

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This means you could open the account, stick the card in a drawer, and not even think about it again until you want to close your account (once your credit has improved) and get your deposit back.

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Synaptics keeps in a drawer a stack of autographed Faggin photos that it sends out to engineering fans who write in.

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That ratio has collapsed from 17 early last year to around 9--meaning that money sits in a sock drawer or a bank account for about twice as long as it once did before being put to use.

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