11.   But throughout the past winter the Russian command had neither the time nor the means to deal with Samashki because heavy fighting was raging in and around Grozny.

12.   But this past winter the balmy weather proved a bonanza.

13.   Donnelly began piling up honors this past winter, when she was named to the Deaf All-American basketball team.

14.   During part of this past winter, some area consumers received record high natural gas heating bills.

15.   For a while this past winter I thought that our younger daughter and her husband might move to New England.

16.   For a few hours this past winter, Darin Erstad unofficially was a member of the Chicago White Sox.

17.   He did so this past winter, intertwining conventional politics with moral leadership.

18.   He has had at least eight interviews, including one this past winter with Cincinnati, a job he desperately wanted.

19.   In past winters, the water has mostly drained out, in drips and dribbles.

20.   In New York, the past three mild winters had crews painting the insides of lighthouses or giving ship tours to schoolchildren.