This code was a big maintenance nightmare; it didn't port so well when we moved from 16-bit to 32-bit Windows.

"They were a maintenance nightmare, and we gave up on them," Mr. Lebow said.

It's a maintenance nightmare.

Officers also say the house has become a maintenance nightmare, forcing repeated calls to a police Emergency Service Unit for urgent repairs.

In production aircraft, blown-flap systems were found to be a maintenance nightmare.

"It was a maintenance nightmare," Frey said.

However, programs of this pattern become maintenance nightmares.

You're not going to have a major maintenance nightmare on your hands.

It was also described by Ms. Gotbaum as a "maintenance nightmare" that attracted homeless people, drug dealers, arsonists and vandals.

The eight lift engines would likely have been a maintenance nightmare, and certainly their weight imposed a severe range and payload penalty on the aircraft.