11.   The technician performed one step of the experiment before instead of after he was supposed to wash out a drug used in an earlier phase of the experiment.

12.   There also has been evidence of ballot box stuffing and rigging in earlier phases of the five-stage general election.

13.   Webb said Philip Morris should not pay any punitive damages because it has discontinued the practices that jurors found objectionable in earlier phases of the trial.

14.   But they were outflanked by a group of people who had been mere bit-players in the earlier phase.

15.   FBI experts had been in Kiev in an earlier phase of the probe.

16.   In earlier phases of the program, the process had taken six months.

17.   The discovery of this prequake tentative stage means there may be an even earlier phase that signals the start of the earthquake process.

18.   Four were acquitted during earlier phases of the trial.