21.   Combs also had to test a handful of lots he sold before turning the money over to the Internal Revenue Service.

22.   Distributors were also encouraged to expand beyond delis and supermarkets and into warehouse stores and mass-merchandising outlets where they had not been sold before.

23.   Drucker said the track owners, the Rooney family, have considered selling before.

24.   He also wants to make sure the bonds are all sold before Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year holiday, that starts at sundown Wednesday.

25.   How many farmers can grow a crop, sell it before the first frost and have all their bills paid by Christmas?

26.   If a home was sold before May, the owners could have avoided capital gains taxes by rolling over the gain to a residence of equal or greater value.

27.   If you have to sell before maturity, you could get more or less than you originally paid for the bond.

28.   In junk-bond land, there was griping last week that some funds sold before the big fall, after talking to Gittis.

29.   In New York yesterday, bonds posted the biggest decline in more than three months as a weaker dollar prompted investors to sell before the employment report.

30.   Investors who bought into Bre-X early and sold before the problems emerged in March made millions of dollars, even though the company never turned a profit.