These are not indulgent expenses: The signal system at the West Fourth Street subway station, for example, has not been replaced since 1932.
It had been afternoon and the dead light bulb in the hall had been replaced since the first time he had passed her.
But he continued to insinuate that their current leaders would first have to be replaced, since he accuses the lot of them of corruption.
The bassist Joe Lally, from Fugazi, sometimes adds leisurely, reggae-influenced basslines, but Mr. Lally has been replaced since the band recorded the album.
Yet virtually every timber of the ship has been replaced since it was first hoicked out of the water in the 1920s.
Most of the cells in my body have probably been replaced since then, relationships and jobs have come and gone with regularity, but the doing of art remains.
It has been replaced since my visit by a duck version; I would have liked it more if it had been less oily from frying.
Ted Wright, the boss of Academi, says that its leadership has been completely replaced since the Blackwater days, and now makes subcontractors sign a set of rules and work under observation.
In fact, my guide pointed out, the telephone (and most of the other décor of the Grand Hotel Rimini) had been replaced since Fellini's death almost 20 years earlier in 1993.
Lansana Conté's long-running presidency in Guinea has been replaced since his death by military rule, and there is increasing nervousness about what will happen in Gabon now that Omar Bongo Ondimba, Africa's longest-serving president, has died.
Mr. Ettore said that the bridge was originally a fixed span, not a movable bridge, and that nearly every bolt and beam of the bridge had been replaced since it was built.
