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- noun Plural form of
man-month .
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Examples
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Maintaining a seat on the Soyuz lifeboat and sending up supplies for 6 man-months isn't free.
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The barriers to entry are very low and thanks to free software, we are only a few man-months away from being able to implement any kind of solution without having to negotiate or ask permission from any body.
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So just imagine how many man-months or man-years are wasted, just like I wasted a day.
Iqbal Quadir says mobiles fight poverty Iqbal Quadir 2005
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So just imagine how many man-months or man-years are wasted, just like I wasted a day.
Iqbal Quadir says mobiles fight poverty Iqbal Quadir 2005
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So just imagine how many man-months or man-years are wasted, just like I wasted a day.
Iqbal Quadir says mobiles fight poverty Iqbal Quadir 2005
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And we talked in terms of "man-months" to get a change made.
From On High 2005
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During that one week, the planner and his staff of eight may be able to put in two man-months working on the problem.
The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning HENRY MINTZBERG 1994
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During that one week, the planner and his staff of eight may be able to put in two man-months working on the problem.
The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning HENRY MINTZBERG 1994
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Anyone with experience in this field will already be beginning to smell the rot setting in: years of surveys and countless consultant man-months before anything actually gets done.
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But in certain instances-and only a comparative few would be accessible to the Byrie commandos; they hadn't many man-months to spend on this job - Havig saw marauders frightened off, or cut down if need be, by submachine gun fire.
There Will Be Time Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1972
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