1. After a few days out of the office it always takes me a while to get into gear when I come back. CIDoI
2. If the project does not get into gear now and if we go back to the drawing board, it will be decades before we get another scheme that is worked through to the present level. BNC
3. Disorganised French industry was slow to get into gear, and when it did it committed the traditional error, not emulated by the Germans, of having too many models. BNC