So it takes many years for these firms to show returns on new projects.
Historically, it takes many revision of the same question before self-interested member states can agree on a compromise!
Meanwhile, for Sabra Ahmadzai this is a battle that must be fought - even if it takes many years.
"What we've learned about bullying during the last decade or so is that it takes many forms, " Juvonen says.
It's a civilizational struggle and it takes many shapes and many forms.
Often, it takes many thousands of generations to create control programs that do a good job of completing the task given to a robot.
It takes many resources to produce some foods, especially meat, so minimizing consumption of high-energy input foods is a great way to reduce your ecological footprint.
Which is good, because the actual vacuuming portion of the mobile unit is only about 4-inches wide, meaning it takes many, many passes to clean an entire room.
It takes many things to make a good founder: vision, drive, a sense for business, a thirst to learn and grow, an ability to capture other people to the cause.
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Proving an incrementally better product enhances value can be expensive (because it takes many patients to demonstrate a small difference in an active comparator trial), and of course, risky as well.
While this might be someone's first outing in the orthographic Super Bowl, it takes many rounds -- from school bees to local to regional -- to qualify for the National Spelling Bee.
It takes a lot of 600s to fit into 3 billion, and in practice it takes many more than that to make a full sequence because the individual fragments have to be linked together by matching up their overlaps.
SSDs using NAND flash memory are capable of very fast read and write speeds and thus can make immediate use of such fast interfaces (whereas it takes many SAS HDDs working together to result in data rates even approaching there speeds).
Not many leaders in biotechnology get enough recognition for their dedication and hard-won achievements, probably because it takes so many years for their work to show solid results.
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It takes on many shapes, but its face is always that of prejudice.
But because it takes so many forms, and because it can be detected in any of four stages, the matrix of severity and survival rates is large.
But because of old systems and heavy congestion, it still takes too many products too long to cross our borders.
History shows that when the central banks do act, it usually takes them many months, or even years, to withdraw sufficient money to quell the inflation fires they lit.
Mr. Walsh said it is less expensive to recreate many of the city's well-known locations, even though it takes about six weeks to build many of the sets.
It gave companies detailed information about, say, how many seconds it takes a consumer visiting their web site to open their web page on a browser.
And it takes so, so many moments to recover from that cruelty.
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Every great business idea or invention is the product of worthwhile talent, but it takes a team with many different talents to bring those ideas to fruition.
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"I'm trying to see how many bounces it takes to get to the hole, " Robert Allenby said.
The vote will begin in the afternoon and could take hours depending upon how many ballots it takes.
They can tell you how many pounds it takes to--of force it takes to brush your teeth, you know.
They were the first to answer the question of how many atoms it takes to reliably store one bit of magnetic information: 12.
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We all need to eat after all and it takes quite some time, many months at least, to plant and harvest a new food crop.
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Burger King, which usually tweets several times a week, typically does so to promote sales on chicken sandwiches, or to ask questions such as how many bites it takes to eat a chicken nugget.
Too bad our Treasury Department doesn't read the riot act to the IMF and tell it to push pro-prosperity policies, such as low taxes, stable money, property rights, easing regulations for starting a business (in many countries it takes years to get all the licenses--and experts wonder why people operate outside the system) and reducing trade barriers internally and externally.
It's the first of many seismic shocks a marriage takes, and it's worth taking a beat to let it settle in.
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