Google was too busy actually innovating to waste time filing thousands of patent applications.
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There were pastries on the table, but George was too busy kibitzing to eat.
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The chain was too busy opening new ones to really focus on the old ones.
Last time auto production was decent, Sirius was too busy worrying about staying in business.
Fosse got the job directing the film because Hal Prince, the stage director, was too busy.
The official reason was that Iran's foreign minister, Kamal Kharrazi, was too busy to entertain Mr Cook.
The one he chose, a well -connected, attractive young lady, said she was too busy with published authors.
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Eventually, his former co-workers stopped calling and he was too busy to notice.
Through the years Robert Ciske, 68, was too busy running three Wisconsin car washes to manage his own investments.
Mr Eno is known for his attention to detail, and he felt his initial design for the artwork was too busy.
At 14, I told Dad I was too busy with my extracurricular activities and friends to stay over with him anymore.
Reached on his cellphone on Thursday, Andy Cheung, the owner of the Harrisburg McDonald's locations, said he was too busy to comment.
He was too busy rapidly acquiring skills by watching and staying humble.
Mr Ventura said he was too busy with his governor's duties to take a hands-on role in building such a national organisation.
One man had his sights set on graduate school but was too busy with family and work to ever finish along a traditional path.
Now an information technology manager at defense contractor Raytheon, Manuel nonetheless still craves the credential he was too busy to pick up along the way.
They claimed that the Forest Service was too busy considering environmentalists' appeals to push through sales of timber, and that the delay cost them money.
Just as he refused to attend the official memorial service for the war's dead in July, so Sunday, Olmert was too busy to attend the ceremony.
If he couldn't play offensive line on his high school football team, for example, it was only because he was too busy helping out on the family farm.
All this had occurred by the time Dickinson asked him if he was too busy to read her poems, as if it were the most reasonable request in the world.
Last year, the BBC discovered that the police had told the wardens to write a third fewer tickets because the police administration was too busy with other matters to process them.
The survey then reported that John answered the request, either saying he was too busy to help much or that, even though he was busy, he would help as much as needed.
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But that can be put down to the fact that he was too busy grinning as he surveyed his fans, listening to their screams of support and making various gestures in response.
At the other end of the spectrum, the hyper-articulate, hypomanic Michel Chapoutier, who walks with a pronounced limp because he was too busy to get a broken leg set some years ago, makes big, rich, heavily oak-influenced wines that can outmuscle Guigal's.
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Artillery was gradually replaced by tactical missiles in the defensive role, but the Air Force was too busy building a fleet of long-range bombers and supersonic fighters to be bothered with ground-based air defenses, while Army troops had a clear need for such defenses.
This case is very unusual in that residency cases are usually about states trying to hang onto somebody they already have, at least for a little bit longer, like Robin Ingle, who ended up paying a quarter million dollars to New York, becasue her boyfriend was too busy to help her move in April causing her to wait until July.
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In those days, he was never too busy to play a round of golf.
Max Mutchler from the Space Telescope Science Institute says the astronomer who asked for the pictures was then too busy to look at them.
But Chu, the chairman of First Eastern Investment Group and a prescient booster of Chinese-Arab trade, was always too busy sharing his expertise with other companies.
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