"Each of them, for three and a half years, did nothing but work on this night and day," he said.
Reports from the court hearing confirm that Mak Chi-Shing, who was jailed for two and a half years, did try to hit the director.
Consumers, whose confidence in the economy fell last month to the lowest point in more than four and a half years, did most of their shopping at discount chains that sell basic products and food.
But Reuters, which had been asking to see the video for two and a half years, didn't have much to say right away.
And then I did, and I put all those Mini DVs away -- I just put that footage away for six, six and a half years, didn't look at it, didn't touch it, nothing.
I spent just over two and a half years doing it, during which time I forgot about watching TV and didn't have any social life.
Adams, who has had an LVAD for more than two and a half years, does not know which group he is in because the trial is "blinded".
Both fields require 4 years of residency training, during which time a typical MD/PhD student, at the right training program, can spend one and a half years doing research.
The raw figure of £84,000 spent on the investigation over two and a half years doesn't sound very much, although Mr Gregory pointed out this covers only specific spending on the case by Norfolk Constabulary - not routine items such as staff wages, nor what might have been disbursed by specialist national agencies who are not in the habit of divulging information about their activities.
Richardson told ABC News that the couple of two and a half years doesn't consider the crash a bad omen.
Yet a public outcry over a decision by Warner Brothers to hold "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" for a half-year did not keep it from taking in $302 million at the domestic box office when it was finally released this July.
