In his day, job Sir Sherard had built up extensive knowledge and contacts but he is thought to have felt that his role in the "Af-Pak" scene was becoming redundant with the appointment of Mark Sedwill, the former British ambassador to Kabul, as the senior Nato civilian representative in Afghanistan.
Flow-dominated eruptions are long-lived events that build up extensive, compound lava flows.
At world level, over the past few decades, clinical domains have built up extensive experience and knowledge, some of which has been uploaded into one of the leading repositories for scientific literature, PubMed.
Rivers draining seaward have built up extensive plains.
"Over the last seven years, the Taliban have built up extensive links with external groups, religious parties and smugglers.
Two related bodies of knowledge and experience need to be built up extensively, to put this framework into practice effectively.
Having built up such an extensive knowledge of the newspaper industry, Brian Leveson could try editing one: the Sun's coverage of I'm a Celebrity would doubtless benefit from having the judge donning the green visor.
They build up a story of knowledge about legal thinking, about approaches that one might consider.
Build up your contacts and knowledge of your field and area.
Those static reports built up knowledge, but data in motion IS knowledge.
And with patience and cunning, he built up the knowledge he needed.
