But even then maintaining it was not easy.
Then, maintaining their spirals, the skaters slipped under one another's legs.
"I know everyone will be looking and wondering," Hill said then, maintaining that he was ahead of schedule.
The cost of bringing homes up to modern standards and then maintaining them to that standard often exceeds their value.
Nova worked ahead in the count and moved along quickly, finding his rhythm early and then maintaining it.
The concept bears little relation to his idea of making a pop record, but then, maintaining a linear narrative seems low on his to-do list.
A Dutch twenty-two-year-old named Sharon van Rouwendaal used this strategy, breaking past the other swimmers around the eighth kilometre, and then maintaining her substantial lead until she slapped the touch pad for gold.
If the economy is sinking so rapidly that it causes deflation, as some commentators are warning, then maintaining the same amount of cash is actually a way to stay ahead of the game.
The most effective way to get rid of wild cats, said Stephanie Shain of the Humane Society, is by neutering the cats and then maintaining and monitoring the colonies until they die out.
It has also been shown that birds are capable of relating the release point to their home area and of determining which direction to take, then maintaining that direction in flight.
The responsible baby boomer, frightened by Wall Street promoters and unduly cynical about receiving Social Security, came to regard a heavy commitment to stocks as crucial to any chance of prospering and then maintaining a decent standard of living in retirement.
