11.   Readers who are patient enough to stay with the book, despite its dry beginning and abrupt shift in story, are well rewarded in the end.

12.   Some scientists say that abrupt shifts in atmospheric circulation could be responsible.

13.   Such abrupt shifts have been made before.

14.   The abrupt shift in public opinion toward the prime minister was the fallout of a cabinet imbroglio this week in which he fired his foreign minister, Makiko Tanaka.

15.   The abrupt shift from sexy growth stocks to boring value plays is definitely real, but will it be a long-term relationship or just a tease?

16.   The abrupt shifts in esthetic quality sometimes threaten esthetic whiplash.

17.   The campaign represents an abrupt shift from a more traditional approach in one that the agency created last year.

18.   The movie is as reckless as its title, careening from one abrupt tonal shift to the next.

19.   The quarterback was instantly surrounded by microphones, tape recorders and video cameras as the crowd around Hollimon did an abrupt shift.

20.   What had been a chess match between Hargrove and Florida manager Jim Leyland took an abrupt shift in the fourth with two un-Hersisherlike mistakes.