Badges of Silver and Gold Mr. Scher has the only complete set of badges from the city's volunteer fire companies, a collection he spent 10 years assembling.

The film's producers, Richard Gordon and Carma Hinton, have spent five years assembling an international archive of videotape and tape-recorded interviews to examine the entire student movement.

By this point, Jakko had spent several years assembling another solo album, which was eventually released as The Bruised Romantic Glee Club in 2006.

He spent three years assembling MIRROR's self-titled debut album, working in tandem on a multi-media live show.

Mr. Carter and another Atlanta mall developer, D. Scott Hudgens, spent two years assembling options on nearly 500 acres at the site, which had long been considered for commercial development.

"We spent about a year assembling our crew - 95 percent were friends from the BYU post department," he told the Apple publication Pro.

Founded in 1957, Toys "R" Us spent nearly 50 years assembling a three-pronged retailing empire - in toys, children's clothes and baby supplies.

Google has spent a considerable amount of money over the past year assembling a formidable defensive patent portfolio that will help insulate its mobile operating system from patent litigation.

With Bitter Cars and Opel, Intermeccanica developed the "Indra" (1971), followed by a few years assembling the Squire car.

The pre-purchasing of the commercial airtime left only four months for production, where normally the company would spend over a year assembling components.