11.   By September, the losses became apparent and were snowballing.

12.   Couple that with a spirited defensive effort from Pepperdine and the seven-point loss becomes unsettling.

13.   He and Seifert soon worked things out, and the Eagles loss became the turning point of the season.

14.   Hearing loss may become more obvious in the second year, as a child who is beginning to speak garbles words in a regular fashion.

15.   Her loss of memory becomes, in a sense, my own.

16.   His loss has now become our gain.

17.   However, this loss becomes negligible, if over a career, a worker continuously increases his or her salary.

18.   In a straddle, the more the market moves in either direction from the strike price, the deeper the losses become.

19.   In Britain in particular, job losses have become synonymous with restructuring in sectors from oil to insurance to utilities.

20.   It updated them in May last year, after the first corporate losses became public.