The European Council yesterday adopted the legal act that limits how much mobile operators can charge each other — the final step in the multi-stage, multi-year process for the region's lawmakers to agree an end to roaming charges for citizens.
In Nevada, advocates recently began a multi-year process to amend the state's constitution to remove the marriage ban.
"The reason this is essentially a 'death sentence' is that it's a multi-year process," explained Rich Greenfield, an analyst at the research firm BTIG.
"It's a multi-year process if it's going to be completed safely and not going to risk financial stability," he said.
ECONOMISTS trying to explain the feeble pace of America's recovery regularly blame deleveraging: the multi-year process of paying off the debts accumulated before the crisis.
The multi-year process that has unfolded, he said, has been "a curve of learning, not throughout the church, throughout society".
These auctions compress what is usually a multi-year process into a few weeks.
The phenomenon is the result of a multi-year process during which agricultural lands and farms were concentrated in a substantially smaller number of farms (Fig. 4a).
For developers in financial services, overcoming the legal, regulatory and security hurdles is a tall order that often equates to a multi-year process.
This multi-year process resulted in the consensus that regulatory agencies could consider additional endpoints, such as persistent HPV infection or immune equivalence, depending on the design of the HPV vaccine trials.
While there are plenty of yachts available that are ready to weigh anchor and set sail immediately, building a bespoke yacht can easily stretch into a multi-year process as hand-on owners oversee everything from carpet patterns to capacity and temperature of the wine cellar.
