1.   A.M. Best said that Prudential had made significant efforts to improve its profit but that those efforts might not bear fruit for a year or two.

2.   All across this country, as conservation efforts bear fruit, humans and wildlife are getting to know one another all over again.

3.   But such efforts may not bear fruit for another six months.

4.   Corimon executives predict their turnaround efforts will bear fruit next year.

5.   Davis said he was certain that such efforts would bear fruit.

6.   Existing commercial efforts are bearing fruit, slowly.

7.   For two years, Mexico has worked with other oil producing nations to lift prices, and their efforts have borne fruit.

8.   Now that century-long effort is finally bearing fruit.

9.   One of the demonstrators, Harriet Comfort, said she was unsure if their efforts had borne fruit.

10.   So far, those efforts have borne little fruit in the market.