The will for speed was there, but British justice has its own stubborn pace, and is more often a properly wearying business, the bureaucratic accretion of fact and referral, and rarely can it have felt more so than in court one at getting on for two o'clock in the morning.
Then, getting on for two decades later, more entrepreneurial types began to get in on the act.
"One of the walls in particular is getting on for two metres thick and it's on an east-west orientation, so as far as we can tell, and its still early days yet, it might be one of the walls of the Greyfriars church and if that is the case, we are on the right track".
It is getting on for eight years since the start of the financial crisis, long enough in the past for the healing process to be complete.
By the official definition, London has getting on for eight million people, but in practical terms, it's a city of 18 million, straggling most of the way from Ipswich to Bournemouth in an unforgiving tide of business parks and designer outlets, gated housing and logistics depots.
When there are 16 candidates, compared with a previous record of 12 in the 1974 election, when getting on for two-fifths of the voters say they will decide only at the last minute and when quite a few people probably lie anyway (not everyone admits to being a neo-fascist in a door-step interview), sounding out opinions can hardly be an exact science.
(So-called "real business cycles" hadn't been invented back then). Getting on for twenty years ago, when I was a young reporter, I interviewed one of Dr. Frankel's eminent predecessors, the late Dr. Geoffrey Moore, of Columbia, who spent much of his life studying cycles, about the challenges of identifying turning points in the economy.
Getting on for twenty years ago, when I was a young reporter, I interviewed one of Dr. Frankel's eminent predecessors, the late Dr. Geoffrey Moore, of Columbia, who spent much of his life studying cycles, about the challenges of identifying turning points in the economy.
"The NHS sees getting on for three million people every week.
It is still getting on for three years since he last won a major, the 2008 US Open.
With just four sprawling sections, and getting on for three times as many letters, I don't think my book is very close.
