Indeed, for the first two years of the war, they groped for solutions that did not yet exist.
This meant the company was investigating deviations that did not yet constitute problems but nonetheless might be instructive for learning.
He spent much of his life "trying to construct languages that did not yet exist," the author maintains.
So he stressed the brisket's scarcity, urging people to pay now for a product that did not yet exist, from a chef with very little track record.
The team was beginning an "exploratory," an anticipatory exercise to create names with such great intrinsic value that they would suit products that did not yet exist.
It was not about adding bike lanes at the expense of something else; it was about sharing something that did not yet exist.
Mr. Gibbons said a handful of the largest American companies had requested the special accounts configured for a currency that did not yet exist.
"Twenty years ago there were a few other advanced economies that did not yet provide paid leave, and now, the U.S. is entirely isolated," she said.
A niche, moreover, that did not yet exist — aspirational, affluent, with upper-crust British cachet, one later described as "old armchair British".
Accounts receivable -- revenue counted in reported financials that did not yet translate into cash in hand -- ballooned to their highest level ever, $132 million.
Alberti, in Grafton's words, "spent much of his life... trying to construct languages that did not yet exist: languages whose users could regulate the practice of different arts".
