it occupied the space until a month or two before the trial in June 1988. Based on these facts, we conclude that Catalina Cafe, Inc., the tenant, vacated the premises at the earliest in April 1987. Further, appellants cannot claim abandonment of the premises until their efforts to sublease the space to other investors failed in June 1987. The “material act” by the landlord about which appellants complain is that Rotana provided inadequate parking for Catalina Cafe. Coleman testified that this parking problem surfaced the first Friday night that Catalina Cafe was open for business in September 1985. Even using the earlier date of April 1987 for the abandonment, we hold that this twenty-month delay is not within a reasonable time as a matter of law. Metroplex Glass, 646 S.W.2d at 265-66 (<HOLDING>). In addition, it was appellants’ burden to
holding that seventeenmonth delay in abandoning premises is not within a reasonable time as a matter of law holding that twoyear delay was not reasonable holding that an over twoyear delay without any excuse was unreasonable as a matter of law holding that a fiftyday delay to conduct an investigation was reasonable as a matter of law holding that the plaintiffs counsel were not entitled to compensation for a seventeenmonth delay in the payment of approximately 11500 in attorneys fees in one matter and a fourteenmonth delay in the payment of approximately 8000 in fees in another matter because the delay itself was not very long and the amount of fees not very high