It can take years of research to win the race for answers ahead of competitors.
Insider trading is tough to prove, and it can take years to gather enough evidence to bring charges.
It can take years to amortize some policies' steep sales commissions and get a good rate of return, he explains.
But this plodding approach means it can take years and sometimes even decades to tease out the most effective cancer drug combinations.
It can take years for a movie to make it from studio approval to theaters -- and in that time, a lot can change.
Knowing that it can take years for academic papers to translate to real products, we're not holding our breath for T-ray routers anytime soon.
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So, it can take years for a Southeastern investment to appreciate.
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It can take years for shifts in public perception to work their way through the court system, change judicial views, and so turn the ship round.
Although the theory that describes the interaction of quarks and gluons is on a firm conceptual footing, it is so complicated in practice that it can take years to make a single calculation of something like the shape of a proton even using the most powerful supercomputers.
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But that option is worth less when bondholders must take a back seat to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund and as Brazil showed in the 11 years it was in default until 1994, it can take years to get even a fraction of your money back.
But pharmaceutical companies get far fewer years of sales than that because it can take eight years or more after invention to accumulate enough data to get a drug past the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Once people become truly dependent, it can take them years to break the cycle.
It can take many years to develop a solid base of infrastructure, content, subscribers, and so forth.
It can take many years for Swiss initiatives to pass into law.
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First of all, it can take 15 years of studying Islamic law--and years more of financial training--before one can make a ruling with any authority.
In film, the process of coming up with an idea, developing it, securing financing and producing it, can take years from inspirational spark to a screening in a theatre.
Absconding with those funds has left the PTO understaffed in relation to the number of patent applications it receives, so that it can take three years to approve a patent.
Just as it takes several years for whiskey producers to meet any spikes in demand, it can also take a few years for them to decrease production when such demand tapers off.
It can take months or years of being audited before getting certification not to mention a big chunk of change.
It can take months or even years for the typical company today to detect a breach.
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It can take founders months to years to get their first real financing done.
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In India, it can take up to four years to fill a teacher vacancy.
It can take up to three years for banks to get their hands on collateral.
Because the cavernosal nerves are slow to regenerate, it can take up to three years for full recovery.
It can take three to five years for the effects of bad or misguided management to become obvious to others.
This can get expensive, and it can take months or even years if a disgruntled relative starts a fight about your assets.
And it can take 50 or more years for the timer set in the womb to trip the fuse and trigger a full-blown disease.
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At the moment it can take up to seven years.
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