It took him nearly an hour.

They took nearly a month to investigate, marshal statistics, and put their arguments down in black and white.

The fuel was a considerable operational problem, because fuelling the missile before launch took nearly half an hour, and was quite hazardous.

Lottrup's son-in-law, Laurits Christian Meulengracht, took over the running of the brewery after that, and was in charge for nearly thirty years, expanding it further.

The craters of the moon have been well preserved through time and were once thought to have been the result of extreme volcanic activity, but instead were formed by meteorites, nearly all of which took place in the first few hundred million years after the Moon formed.

And then my son Terry took me walking in Beverly Hills and explained that it wasn't nearly the end of it.

It took nearly 20 years for public opinion to shift.

Besides the empress, the emperor could take, and nearly always took, several secondary consorts (" concubines ") of various hierarchical degrees.

Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles originally planned on a main hall of the Hagia Sophia that measured 230 feet by 250 feet, making it the largest church in Constantinople, but the original dome was nearly 20 feet lower than it was constructed, “ Justinian suppressed these riots and took the opportunity of marking his victory by erecting in 532-7 the new Hagia Sophia, one of the largest, most lavish, and most expensive buildings of all time .” Although Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles were not formally educated in architecture, they were scientists that could organize the logistics of drawing thousands of laborers and unprecedented loads of rare raw materials from around the Roman Empire to create the Hagia Sophia for Emperor Justinian I.

John Major wrote in his auto-biography that, " During my premiership interest rates fell from 14 % to 6 %; unemployment was at 1. 75 million when I took office, and at 1. 6 million and falling upon my departure ; and the government's annual borrowing rose from £ 0. 5 billion to nearly £ 46 billion at its peak before falling to £ 1 billion ".

The last two major eruptive phases occurred in 1902: the eruption of May 8, 1902 destroyed Saint-Pierre and took 28, 000 dead in 2 minutes ; that of August 30, 1902 caused nearly 1, 100 deaths, mostly in Morne-Red and Ajoupa-Bouillon.

In this deal nearly all utilisation and license rights, and the registered ABBA trademark, were sold for an unknown sum of money to PolyGram shortly before the ABBA members took him to court over royalty back payments.

* Cartoon Network cancelled Mobile Suit Gundam after the attack as the series focused on war and took an episode of Cowboy Bebop that dealt with terrorist bombings (" Cowboy Funk ") out of the Adult Swim lineup for nearly a year afterwards.

* Though normal television programming resumed after nearly a full week of news coverage following the attack, some daily talk shows such as The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with Conan O ' Brien, The Daily Show and Late Show with David Letterman took additional time before beginning to broadcast new installments, with Letterman in particular stating that he was not sure he wanted to continue to do the show.

Twenty-three Tercerista commandos led by Edén Pastora seized the entire Nicaraguan congress and took nearly 1, 000 hostages including Somoza's nephew José Somoza Abrego and cousin Luis Pallais Debayle.

Williams nearly always took the first pitch, reasoning that the ability to gauge the pitcher's " stuff " was worth conceding a first strike.

Although the constitution prescribed a new form of legislature, the PDPU-dominated Supreme Soviet remained in office for nearly two years until the first election to the new parliament, the Supreme Assembly of Uzbekistan ( Oliy Majlis ), which took place in December 1994 and January 1995.

After two months of inaction, during which the armies faced each other across the Secchia River, Königsegg on September 15 took advantage of lax security and executed a raid on Coigny's headquarters, very nearly capturing Coigny and taking among other prizes Charles Emmanuel's china.

In contrast to the relatively straightforward arrangements for the Central Pacific, the Union Pacific which was to ultimately build nearly 2 / 3 of the track was to be mired in controversy and scandals while its controlling partner Thomas C. Durant got rich as he took advantage of lax or non-existent government oversight during the Civil War.

On June 14, 1941, when mass deportations took place simultaneously in all three Baltic countries, about 10, 000 Estonian civilians were deported to Siberia and other remote areas of the Soviet Union, where nearly half of them later perished.

During this voyage he took possession of the Falkland Islands on the part of Britain, in 1765, on the ground of prior discovery, and his doing so was nearly the cause of a war between Great Britain and Spain, both countries having armed fleets to contest the sovereignty of the barren islands.

The island was nearly lost to Athens by two attempts of the oligarchic faction to effect a revolution ; on each occasion the popular party ultimately won the day and took a most bloody revenge on its opponents ( 427 BC and 425 BC ). The lion of Menekrates at the Archaeological Museum of CorfuDuring the Sicilian campaigns of Athens Corcyra served as a supply base ; after a third abortive rising of the oligarchs in 410 BC it practically withdrew from the war.

The title Côtes de Provence was already in use in 1848, but production was nearly destroyed by phylloxera later in that century, and took decades to recover.

Soviet advisers took over nearly all aspects of Afghan administration – according to critics, the Afghans became the advisors and the Soviet became the advised.

This process took another 10 years.

Marshal Villeroi, exerting considerable pressure on the Dutch commander, Count Overkirk, along the Meuse, took Huy on 10 June before pressing on towards Liège.

" The team's first demonstration before Navy officials took place on 10 May 1946 and was met with enthusiastic approval.

The team took a risk by recording and releasing the song before the playoffs had even begun, but were able to avoid embarrassment by going on to win Super Bowl XX by a then-record margin of 46 – 10.

In the course of this conflict, forced removal of at least 10, 000 Indians to relocation centers in the interior of the country and subsequent burning of some villages took place.

He took office on August 10, 1998.

Constitutional changes enacted by a specially elected National Constitutional Assembly in 1998 took effect on August 10, 1998.

The quarterback, Sam Moore, took the ball from center and faded eight or 10 yards back of our line.

At age 10 he took singing lessons and studied keyboard playing for two weeks with a local organist.

PLH's Carlos Roberto Flores took office on 27 January 1998, as Honduras ' fifth democratically elected President since free elections were restored in 1981, with a 10 % margin over his main opponent PNH nominee Nora Gúnera de Melgar ( the widow of former leader Juan Alberto Melgar ).

Himmler's diary, which he kept intermittently from age 10, shows that he took a keen interest in current events, dueling, and " the serious discussion of religion and sex ".

In the triangular series, which South Africa won, he scored only one fifty at East London where he also took 2 / 17 off 10 overs.

In 1957, Simon predicted that computer chess would surpass human chess abilities within " 10 years " when, in reality, that transition took about 40 years.

On 10 December 1916, Alexander took second-in-command of 1st Battalion Irish Guards as acting major.

In the 25 Tests he played before he became captain he made 6 centuries and took 5 wickets in an innings 14 times, including 10 in a match 3 times, an astonishing record.

The Nobel Prize ceremony took place in Stockholm, Sweden, on the evening of Monday, December 10.

There he repeated in a different form all that he had already said, for all the world as if he had a gramophone fixed in his brain ... When I took leave, he subjected me to an interminable handshake, meanwhile fixing his cold blue eyes on mine, and repeating almost word for word what he said to me on arrival ... I felt I should never be able to establish any human contact with this man " In early June 1940, when Mussolini informed Hitler that he at long last would enter the war on 10 June 1940, Hitler was most dismissive, in private calling Mussolini a cowardly opportunist who broke the terms of the Pact of Steel in September 1939 when the going looked rough, and was only entering the war in June 1940 after it was clear that France was beaten and it appeared that Britain would soon make peace.

They took additional lessons on May 10 ; however, with poor English skills, they did not do well with flight lessons.

The Kaohsiung Incident took place in Kaohsiung on December 10, 1979.

Experiment 10 took place in a modest office in Bridgeport, Connecticut, purporting to be the commercial entity " Research Associates of Bridgeport " without apparent connection to Yale University, to eliminate the university's prestige as a possible factor influencing the participants ' behavior.

On 10 November 2007, a mass rally, called the 2007 Bersih Rally, took place in the Dataran Merdeka Kuala Lumpur at 3pm to demand for clean and fair elections.

There has been a strong military coup culture, between 1966 and 1999 10 Military Coups in Nigeria took place.

On May 5, Hazmi and Mihdhar took a lesson for one hour, and additional lessons on May 10 at the Sorbi Flying Club, with Hazmi flying an aircraft for 30 minutes.

* In the July 10, 1920 issue of The Illustrated London News, G. K. Chesterton took issue with both pessimists ( such as Spengler ) and their optimistic critics, arguing that neither took into consideration human choice: " The pessimists believe that the cosmos is a clock that is running down ; the progressives believe it is a clock that they themselves are winding up.