11.   The procedure took about three hours, much of that preparation work.

12.   The preparation work since January has been tedious, slow and sandy, with a stream of tourists snapping pictures from a nearby parking lot.

13.   Mr Wong said the pre-sale preparation work of Pearl Island Hotel was finished.

14.   Police said in their statement that no action was taken against the demonstrators on Sunday because they were not disrupting race preparation work.

15.   Preparation work already has been completed at the site, located between the National Air and Space Museum and the U.S. Capitol.

16.   Reporters who visited the site this week also were told that site preparation work stopped two weeks ago.

17.   Site preparation work will begin with the groundbreaking, and actual construction of the nuclear plants is scheduled to start next year.

18.   The state agency is scheduled to privatise this year, but a lot of preparation work has yet to be done.

19.   Vietnam ships virtually all of its oil overseas for processing, although site preparation work is under way on its first refinery.

20.   SSTD started land preparation work at the site in August and international investors have snapped up all the industrial land parcels to be initially marketed.