11.   Each week seemed like a month, each month a year.

12.   Every week seems to bring a new crisis.

13.   For Bobby and Vickie Kitchens, the past few weeks seem like a blur.

14.   For children this young, he and other lawyers said, weeks can seem like eons, so lawyers try to move the cases along as quickly as possible.

15.   Moving the date of the Super Bowl back a week seems easy enough, right?

16.   Over the next seven months, each week seemed to bring an unexpected technical problem.

17.   Remember how the hours dragged and how school weeks seemed to be all Mondays?

18.   Still, for those who have to deal with overwhelming gloom, the postoperative weeks can seem intolerable.

19.   The action this week seemed intended to eradicate the new strain at an earlier stage.

20.   The last week seemed to crystallize the long-term decline in political civility.