bear fruit

The mantra was about waiting until these players understand the genius of the message, just hang on until the full magnificence of the work starts to bear fruit.

Yet there is hope in some quarters: it is possible this year's output may turn out to be a low point, as recent investments start to bear fruit.

Japan's fertility rate - the average number of children born to a woman over her lifetime - has been low since the 1970s, so experts warn even dramatic improvements now would take decades to bear fruit.

By the mid-aughts, efforts to draw in more blue-collar visitors had begun to bear fruit, and tax records show more than a million people were coming each year.

The Scottish secretary accepted that it had been a "very difficult" year for the Labour administration, but said that the hard choices taken since last July would bear fruit and that people would feel the difference in their pockets.