21.   Asked on Monday how soon monitors might go, and how many there might be, the State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said that was still not clear.

22.   Because many of these programs are small and privately run, there is no good count of how many there are, nor much sense of their impact.

23.   There are so many who are left behind.

24.   A good many are conflicts of small interest between unlikely combatants.

25.   But administration officials would not discuss how many sky marshals there are now on planes or how many there might be in the future.

26.   But crushed families need a bit more to survive and too many of them are homeless and their problems will not be resolved by a good winter coat.

27.   But imagine how many there would be if Flutie were not here.

28.   But never have there been so many of them.

29.   But she declined to speculate on how many there might be.

30.   But there are so many of them being sold that they have dragged down the average.