11.   Did Homer receive a big advance?

12.   Despite big recent advances, Russia still lacks a truly independent judiciary and an enforceable legal system.

13.   For more than three decades, the big advances in computing have soon brought new headaches.

14.   He called Guth and told him that he could get a big advance if Guth would agree to write a book.

15.   Indeed, some analysts said that the voyage is just beginning to pick up speed and that big advances lie ahead.

16.   Its design, which let people operate a computer by pointing at images on the screen, was a big advance over earlier systems.

17.   No matter what happens, Barr said, the gay community has made big advances in its attempt to stake out a presence in the Republican Party.

18.   Numerous ideas are being freely discussed in subgroups and among delegation leaders, a big advance on the previous four years of intermittent talks.

19.   Once transferred, he made big advances in his education, until he encountered one demoralizing obstacle.

20.   On the other hand, Republicans said, the strategy could prove to be a big advance toward getting a tax cut enacted into law this year.