But that is pretty much over, a fact that the market is slow to recognize.
Ultimately, though, the battle may not be so much over artistic integrity as over economics.
Am I not guilty of worrying too much over a sloppy session that ended with green screens?
And that figure isn't predicted to rise very much over the next few years, according to Jupiter Research.
"I don't expect rates to go up much over the next several years, except on the coasts, " Hunter says.
And we were calling for modifications to entitlement programs, would have saved just as much over the 10-year window.
The game, televised by ABC, was pretty much over in the first quarter, when Alabama rolled to a 21-0 lead.
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Sales, marketing and customer service have blurred so much over the years that they should not be seen as separate activities.
Black Friday 2011 is pretty much over, and in spite of all the talk about and boycotting, people came out in hordes.
In fact, most of the official numbers have shown that American toil has not changed that much over the past few decades.
"There's not that much pressure on us because we haven't done much over the last couple of years, " says the Loup clubman.
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But a paper in this week's Nature suggests that the technology for indulging in it has not changed much over the years, either.
Think of it this way: now that the Winter Classic has been going strong since 2008, the novelty is pretty much over anyway.
"Both teams have been through so much over the years, but that's the joy of supporting a lower league team, " said Mr Jones.
Despite being over the warm waters of the Gulf Stream, Alberto is not expected to intensify much over the next couple of days.
But with this latest announcement, the Fed has made it very clear that rates will not change much over the next two years.
On February 14th, St Valentine's day, one of its craft went into orbit around an asteroid called Eros amid much over-rehearsed, toe-curling humour.
The uptrend in the daily OBV (line e) was broken in January and the OBV has not improved much over the past few weeks.
India, for example, seems not to have intervened much in the foreign-exchange market, but its currency has not moved much over the past year either.
The maps are in urgent need of updating and the chronology is confusing - perhaps the result of attempting too much over a vast territory.
"Our strategy hasn't changed much over the past year, " says Ballard.
According to the Solar Future campaign, costs will come down so much over the next decade that new solar capacity will not have to be subsidised.
Britain's total net debt is not much over 30% of GDP at present, compared with more than 40% in America and 54% in the euro area.
More and more of them believe that if they haven't made their bling-bling by a certain time, it's pretty much over, and who cares if they die.
Maybe not so much over the great sweep of national policy, but quite probably over spending decisions affecting Northern Ireland in general, and their constituencies in particular.
So many factors can affect alertness and energy levels, and they vary so much over the life span, that many people with sleep disorders never realize they have one.
The pair have seen the music industry change so much over the last several years that they decided to build an online platform to champion the love of playing music.
Transformation is also difficult simply because the size and scale of the executive branch have grown so much over the past century, vastly increasing the odds that things can go wrong.
Considering Fox will bleed billions of lost revenue if Prime Ticket is contracted off of tv in LA, how much over a 20-25-year period is Fox going to bid to keep the Dodgers?
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