There was a year between initiation and completion.从开始到完成经过了一年的时间。The cost would be truly mind-boggling.成本会高到完全不可思议的地步。We are gradually changing over to a completely metric system.我们正逐渐过渡到完全使用公制。School standards were unacceptably low.学校的教育水平低到完全不符合要求。