While many people start playing a social game but later get bored and quit after a few weeks or maybe months, Meteor Games is designing its games to have much more content, narrative and strategy so that people will play for 12 to 24 months.
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"Fads can last three weeks, maybe three months, " says Margaret Whitfield, a toy analyst with Tucker Anthony.
If you would ask me that about maybe six months ago because this is still kind of brand new.
And Democrats who feel they already have public sentiment behind them, maybe two months from now they'll have even more.
And who would have thought, 15 years ago -- who would have thought maybe nine months ago we would be here.
If I can lose 3-4 pounds a month, then maybe in three months I can be back at a weight where I can at least pull up the pant zipper (if the top button does not yet fit) with an extra long shirt for supplementary midriff coverage.
But the fact of the matter is we want to pilot accommodation centres for asylum seekers, maybe for the first six months whilst we take their claim - maybe their appeal.
Instead of just diving into this opportunity, Nokia would spend a long time, maybe six to nine months, just assessing the opportunity.
Some have lost work and have not been able to find jobs for months, maybe a year, maybe a year and a half.
"Maybe in a few months, " she said after the 47-46 loss to Saint Joseph's in the Atlantic 10 tournament title game Saturday night.
"Other doctors will tell you you've got six to nine months, maybe a year to live, " says Dr. Henry Friedman, the center's director.
And because the industrial base for manufacturing the transformers and capacitors used in delivering electricity is relatively small, it could take months, maybe years, to fully restore service.
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Sometime over the next few months (maybe May, or maybe July, depending on how much cash Geithner has squirreled away in government coffers) the Treasury will reach that limit.
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Maybe, back home, a fire alarm goes off and he does not wake, or maybe, at ten months, you notice that your baby will not look you in the eye.
So employment is something that we're going to have a difficult time for the next several months, maybe through the end of this year, but I'm confident that we're taking the steps that are required to create these new jobs of the future.
Nothing was going on, nothing had changed at the cuttings for maybe as long as nine months.
They had, maybe at most, 20 months left of their sentence to serve.
But perhaps for six months, or maybe just for a month while budget negotiations continue ahead of a looming deadline at the end of March.
"While I asked for a review, it seems as though it will be some time before I can get that information, maybe as much as three months or more, " Bonaparte said.
But our big concern is that most of these deals are done behind closed doors and by the time an announcement is made negotiations will have been continuing for 3, 4, 5 weeks -maybe even a couple of months, and so when it then appears on the streets there's very little time to do anything about it.
After I'd lasted six months, they said maybe I'd last a year.
We're thinking that the El Nino pattern is really about to kick in and will be with us for maybe the next two or three months.
And that's something that maybe politically very attractive to Democrats six months from now.
If there is an upward slope coming in money market rates its angle is gentle, maybe a hundred basis points over 12 months.
You've probably got at least another year, maybe, you know, another 18 months of downward pressures on housing prices especially in markets on the coast where you've got these housing prices that have gone up by incredible, unrealistic multiples for several years, double-digit percentage gains in the cost of - or the going rate for a home or for a condo over the last three, four, five years.
Maybe its recent rise portends better results nine months from now that we can't yet see in the statistics.
There are going to be some months where people start worrying that maybe we're not out of the hole yet.
Scant chance that investors find non-confiscatory yields going out 10 years on bond maturities, currently at 2 percent, maybe ratcheting up 50 basis points over 12 months.
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