21.   But Jeff Sluman has conquered the gusts at Colonial so often over the past four years, his time seems due.

22.   But that floor seems almost jarringly out of place in a building where time seems to have stopped decades ago.

23.   But the time seemed ripe for a good polemic, rather than another juiceless article in a scholarly journal.

24.   But the time seems right this year.

25.   But the time seems to have come for a reappraisal of things that women were conventionally supposed to enjoy, and which some always have.

26.   But the time seems right for a show set in a school that focuses on the adults, not the kids.

27.   But there are moments, particularly around twilight, when time seems to have stalled in Mason City, Iowa.

28.   But time seems short.

29.   But with just one victory in the last nine games, times seem far more desperate now.

30.   DEMAND FOR OIL AND GAS RIGHTS Boom times seem to be back for the oil industry in the Gulf of Mexico.