11.   Our world has been swept by three influenza pandemics in this century.

12.   Some see Russia as having aggravated an already troubling downward spiral of prices, or deflation, that is sweeping the world through ever-cheaper manufactured goods.

13.   The Internet, moreover, has both accelerated and come to symbolize a much broader set of economic, political and social changes sweeping the world.

14.   The new forces of globalization swept the world.

15.   There is an equally turgid piece on Trance, a new form of rave dance music sweeping the world and involving all things fluorescent.

16.   Thirty years ago, the so-called Hong Kong flu swept the world, she said.

17.   Although financial turmoil and uncertainty is sweeping the world, no country can afford to insulate itself or ignore the less fortunate, the U.N. chief said.

18.   Boutros-Ghali noted that political and social change was sweeping the world.

19.   In the meantime, American culture is sweeping the world.

20.   The last two of three flu pandemics that swept the world originated in China, said Fukuda.