Sentences with phrase «took eight»

Appointed in March 2003, he was originally given until December 31, 2005 to review and report on the investigations and circumstances surrounding the resulting criminal proceedings against Gregory Parsons and Randy Druken, and determine why Ronald Dalton's appeal of his murder conviction took eight years to be heard by the Newfoundland and Labrador Court of Appeal.

It took eight years to finally get established in January, 1995.

As William Zinsser points out, Walden — which Thoreau took eight years and seven drafts to write — is a model of «plain and orderly» prose.

This was a complex task and took eight years to complete.

Furthermore, it took eight more years before the «Divergence Problem» was revealed.

Last time Bill was gracious to Anthony after Anthony falsely accused him of deleting a tweet, it took eight days.

However, it took another eight years to be ratified by enough countries to enter into force, and some key nations like the United States backed out of the Protocol.

Yes, it took us eight years to get to where we are today, but we started as college graduates, we started without any experience... I'm very confident that we can continue this strong growth, which we had especially in the last two or three years, in order to meet those targets.»

John Whitney had found the process unexpectedly time consuming — it took eight hours to produce ten seconds of film.

Sherwood L. Boehlert, a moderate Republican congressman who was first elected to represent Utica, N.Y., in 1982, said it took eight years of fighting for acid rain controls to be added to the Clean Air Act in 1990.

She is best known for her masterpiece titled The Rose, a work that took her eight years to complete.

I took my eight year old to Tate Liverpool last week.

A pivotal figure in the 1950s Beat culture of artists, poets and musicians, DeFeo is most closely identified with one work, considered her finest achievement: «The Rose,» a nearly 12 - foot - tall painting that took eight years to complete, weighs a ton and is in the Whitney's permanent collection.

It took eight screenwriters to make Tower Heist.

Waiting for the spontaneous urge, it took him eight years to finish the series.

Caught in the outbreak of the Six - Day War between Israel and Egypt, Jordan and Syria, it took eight years before the ships were able to leave the canal when it re-opened in 1975.

The late DeFeo (1929 — 1989) is perhaps best known for her monumental painting The Rose (1958 — 66), which took her eight years to create.

It took eight nude dancers to make a spectacle of themselves along with sausages, wet paint, and raw chickens, as Meat Joy in 1964.

«I took eight girls at a time in my studio, while the other half of Read More...

This game took eight years to make and it will probably take you ten years to finish.

It's only took eight months, but The Elder Scroll V: Skyrim's eight pieces of DLC are coming to the PS3 version next month.

It took eight years for the game to get a sequel with Shantae: Risky's Revenge on the Nintendo DS, but not a physical release.

While there have been exceptions — Team Fortress 2 took eight years to make, and The Last Guardian also looks set to buck the trend — for the most part you only need to look at the likes of Aliens: Colonial Marines, Duke Nukem Forever and Too Human to see evidence that troubled development tends to lead to a mediocre release.

While my first play - through took me eight hours on the clock (which should actually be plus any reset time from dying, and the ending of the game which it doesn't record), and the platinum took a total of eleven as I got stuck, a second play - through of the game where I simply aimed for the ending showed it could be done in under four hours total (including endgame and any death resets).

It took eight or ten slashes but he went down.

Later the James Bus took eight to twelve hours to bump its way over one hundred and eighty miles of mainly dirt road.

JM: So you took eight on April 15th — which, you got one to two from Tivoli, and where did the others come from?

Joy: During the Los Gatos trip, I took eight puppies in one large crate, and several of them threw up during the transport.

It took eight years of back - and - forth wrangling, according to petfoodindustry.com, but the full membership of the Association of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO) accepted revised dog and cat food nutrient profiles at its annual meeting held last month in Denver.

KISSIMMEE - Osceola County Sheriff's investigators took eight dogs into custody this weekend and turned them over to animal control officers after getting an anonymous tip about a dog - fighting operation.

It took me eight years to get through my program.

In the second chart, note that it took eight years for the value decile to catch up to the glamour decile.

There's always a story about a landlord that took eight months to get a tenant evicted.

I thought this was extremely fast: my wireless router is upstairs on the opposite end of the house in a closet, and I am using a WiFi connection — it took eight seconds for the book to download and appear on the home page.

Amazon Publishing imprints took eight of the top 20 spots in the Kindle Best - sellers» list of 2016 and currently accounts for eight of the top 10 places in the best - selling list for 2017 so far.

It took my eight years to complete the book.

It took eight months for that to happen.

It took me eight years to write the book and get a contract.

It took eight issues over a period of three years to persuade McPhee to contribute an original piece to the journal, and surprisingly, when it happened, it was uncharacteristically personal.

It took him eight years to write The Ministry of Special Cases following the publication of his bestselling short stories, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, which he wrote while living in Israel.

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It took me eight years to write this book, as a lot of the information became available after the statute of criminal investigations expired.

It took eight months from August 2013 to April 2014 to complete, but I knew it was all worth it when I finally got to hold the first copy of «Bugglepuffs and the Magic Key» on the 10th April 2014 — my animated family was in print — yippee!

It took eight generations and some 35 years to get to the point where Nissan can make the claim its flagship Maxima four - door is «a sports car in sedan clothing» without some...

It took eight painstaking months for the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart to research and replicate the 1948 Porsche 356 No. 1, a streamlined roadster that was built to demonstrate Ferdinand Porsche's vision of a unique and innovative sports car.

Interestingly, after a good few years of superb top - five showings in the Driver Power manufacturer rankings, Nissan took an eight - place tumble in 2013 from its 2012 fourth place, so customers aren't quite as ecstatic as they used to be.

Based on a 2012 MP4 - 12C, the build took eight months to complete, with Mulgari upgrading both the style and performance of the McLaren.

Measuring in - gear acceleration figures against the Koleos is tricky because of its CVT gearbox, but the 30 - 70mph figure in the Kodiaq was also the fastest on test — it took eight seconds flat, where the Renault did it in 9.5 seconds and the Kuga 8.4 seconds.

It took eight years and three tries to take a great idea and give it usability, speed and — we hope — freedom from glitches.

It took eight minutes for the track workers to extricate the wounded Corvette from the muck, and 17 minutes later the C6.R was back on the track with a new front end and Oliver Gavin behind the wheel.