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That includes the telephone, which peaked below 95% after 100 years of effort.
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After two years of effort, the plan has only inched forward, owing to mistrust among agencies and fighting over funding, officials in both countries say.
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After three years of effort, we deserved some success!
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Most notably, local permit delays have spurred Shell to abandon an Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) project in Sicily after seven years of permit delays and BG to threaten to withdraw from a similar effort in the southern region of Puglia after 11 years of waiting.
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In biology every solid clue emerges after a dozen red herrings that can waste years of effort.
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There's a careful study of the Mariel boatlift, for example, which was a kind of natural experiment where a large number of Cuban immigrants were, if you will, dumped on the shores of Southern Florida all of a sudden in effort to try to find in the years after whether there was any negative effect on workers and black workers of this unexpected influx.
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After three years of incredibly long hours and hard work, the business had nothing to show for the effort except significant losses.
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Mr. Obama has made an effort to appeal to business in the second half of his first term after two initial years of frayed relations.
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After forty years of experience coordinating the Pacific Tsunami Warning System (PTWS), UNESCO-IOC is leading a global effort to establish ocean-based tsunami warning systems as part of an overall multi-hazard disaster reduction strategy.
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Tokyo has differed from similar pledging conferences of recent years in one important respect: unlike in the cases of Bosnia, or Kosovo, or even East Timor, no formal international structure is being set up to co-ordinate the reconstruction effort and to shoulder much of the burden of administering a country that, after more than 20 years of strife, has only the most rudimentary governmental mechanism of its own.
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