11.   But he caught himself, retraced his steps, and managed to get into a higher gear to overhaul countryman and training partner Benjamin Paredes.

12.   But push above that, especially in higher gears, and the extra power is evident.

13.   But now, with so many problems on so many fronts, the company has kicked into higher gear.

14.   But they were as good a symbol as any for the higher gear that the home team played in.

15.   Chavez often visits the truck stop on the northern edge of the turnpike, urging the mud-flap crowd to shift to a higher gear.

16.   David Berkowitz wrote to Jimmy Breslin, one madman to another, and the story shifted into an even higher gear.

17.   His court speed, ballhandling and defensive prowess shift UCLA into a higher gear, give it a different look.

18.   His role now is in helping the Yankees, fighting for a playoff spot, shift to a higher gear.

19.   If West Nile virus begins to show up, officials will move into higher gear, sowing bacterial larvicide in catch basins and stepping up public education.

20.   It would take little provocation for me to click to a higher gear and fly out at racing speed.