You don't put in 10 years on a book because of a conversation at lunch.

I put in fifteen years with them before I went my own way.

I put in eight years studying to be a teacher.

We put in three years of our lives into that.

Estimates for 1989/90 put this figure at £1 billion - a one hundredfold increase in ten years.

They'll clean these properties up, cut a lot of cost and put them on the market again in three to five years.

And it was all put together in five years.

But he said, "I think I've put all that straight in the last five or six years."

"We put 12,000 miles on that car in two years," he said.

"I figure you've got to put in 20 years before you get past amateur status," she said.