11.   Let the contest begin!

12.   Since the contest began, the Express has been flooded with strange and moving tales.

13.   Stanford was in trouble before the contest began.

14.   That also would allow Bush and Gore to keep the spending at the minimum if the California contest begins to look like a runaway.

15.   That is when the real contest will begin.

16.   The business plan contest began three years ago in the engineering school and now includes students in business, law, medicine, biology and other departments.

17.   The contest begins in earnest this week, when the Pentagon releases the final contract specifications for the plane.

18.   The contest began in the mud, and it stayed there.

19.   The contests begin Saturday.

20.   The contest began with a boat dropping the competitors into the chilly waters of the Mediterranean.