Limited cash means that a project must sometimes wait two or three years for its money.

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And the advantage for RBS of their plan is that it can have most of the money almost immediately, rather than having to wait two or three years for the IPO.

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But it was very much 'Sign up an author and wait two or three years for a manuscript, ' rather than saying, 'This is what we think doctors and nurses need, what the book should look like and what the content should be.

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