It is a homecoming that was years in the making.
Tsiolkas's recent history is the classic story of an overnight success that was years in the making.
From the beginning Venini's workshop turned out beautiful tableware that was years ahead of the work of other contemporary designers.
We had arranged to ski together and shoot a video, an appointment that was years in the making, if not actually going all the way back to the first time I met Vonn, in 2002.
The theatre's name became synonymous with that of Chekhov, whose plays about the day-to-day life of the landed gentry achieved a delicate poetic realism that was years ahead of its time.
Distilling the examples of the German Romantics, the Barbizon artists and the Hudson River School, Inness forged a less-is-more conception of pictorial unity that was years ahead of its time.
That's debatable, but it is superior to a baseball plan that was years late, cynically designed to disappear and would have had the first two years of testing come in less than 5percentt positive.
A financial crisis that was years in the making and came to a point last fall reached its climax on April 8, when the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, which had revoked the college's accreditation, rejected Morris Brown's appeal.
For a project that was years in the making, he communicated it to the audience in six minutes.
But for John Hanke — CEO of Niantic, the company behind Pokemon Go — it was another step in a journey that was years in the making.
But 40 years ago a factory on the Isle of Wight built around 100 electric cars to a design that was years ahead of its time.
