31.   Bundesbank council members have dropped repeated hints of a rate cut in recent weeks, saying future moves would hinge on money supply and inflation trends.

32.   But as the military services began to consider what they would actually close, they dropped hints to Perry that their original estimates were overly ambitious.

33.   But at the start of last season, his own ninth year on the payroll, Rice began dropping hints about catching Brown, to the puzzlement of all.

34.   But federal prosecutors have already dropped tantalizing hints that the behavior may have started two decades earlier, with her mother.

35.   But he did drop some hints.

36.   But he does drop hints.

37.   But earlier this spring the general manager dropped hints of which way the club might be leaning.

38.   But I nevetheless drop hints.

39.   But in interviews they dropped some hints about their thinking.

40.   But he dropped hints that the option to quit is very much alive.