He took ten years to come to terms with a very obdurate and highly original painter.
"It took ten years to figure out these didn't work very well, " he says.
It took ten years for the exchange to contribute much to development, he says.
It took ten years of talks between Cambodia and the UN before the court opened in July 2007.
It took ten years for the state to return to the income levels it had before the bust.
Raised by two primary-school-teacher parents who separated when he was very young, the convivial Mateschitz took ten years to get through college.
Gordon Drummond eventually took Ten Doeschate's wicket but Cooper finished unbeaten on 80 to take the Dutch over the line with three balls to spare.
With continuous AF shooting as we moved towards a stationary target, it took ten seconds to get nine shots, or less than one frame per second.
"In the local pubs we were sitting on one side and the newcomers were sat on the other side...it took ten years for them to gel with the local community, " he said.
Mr Thomas generously and rightly acknowledges a vast debt to an earlier biography of Mr Solzhenitsyn by Michael Scammell, who took ten years to chronicle the writer's life in a huge tome published in 1984.
It sounds laughable today but it finally broke through to the one hundred level, prices continued to rise for a couple of months and then a major drop kicked in, it took ten years for the Dow to get back to the hundred level.
When you have a very strong stock coming up to a ten-year high, that ten-year high is going to be resistant even though it took place ten years ago.
Some posts even mention flights they took over ten years ago and a fateful missed connection.
It took about ten years for Moore's Law to deliver the first personal computers.
Fyodorov put the little hare down by the stove and took his ten-month-old daughter in his arms.
And it took another ten years--ten long, skittish, sideways years--before the Dow was able to consistently close above 1, 000.
Hyundai's cars are much better than they used to be, but it took a ten-year, 100, 000-mile warranty to convince buyers to return.
It took him ten minutes to drive to Brien McMahon High School.
Most of Sudan's politicians fled into exile when Mr Bashir took power ten years ago except, that is, for Mr Turabi, who emerged as the regime's chief ideologue.
As a 17-year-old he once took all ten wickets in an innings for his school, Excelsior High, against Camperdown - five wickets with pace and five with leg-spin.
Thanks to a changed intellectual climate, to enlargement that took in ten largely free-market countries from central and eastern Europe, and not least to Britain's own influence, the EU has become both more liberal and keener on competition not a million miles away from the club the Tories always wanted.
Even there, in far less inhospitable territory, it took more than ten weeks to clear the area.
Mr. CHRIS CHERWINSKI (World Food Program): For example, two truck were hijacked, and it took us about ten days of negotiation to get the trucks and the drivers back.
Or put it another way, 8 million honest people who all took at least ten minutes to read this licence agreement and, oh lordy, understood it, would, in terms of total time, eat up over 1, 522 years in just one day.
With the approach this autumn of sweeping leadership changes in China's civilian and military leadership, it is not surprising that General Liang has turned even more shy than usual (it took the IISS ten years to secure attendance by a Chinese defence minister, even though the office ranks relatively low in China's military hierarchy compared with other countries).
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