31.   To give companies time to analyze the results of earlier rounds, the commission will hold only one or two rounds of bidding each day.

32.   Twelve years ago, an earlier round of proposals subjected the city to an urban psychodrama that dragged on for four years.

33.   An earlier round of firefights along the border left seven soldiers from Cameroon dead in March.

34.   An earlier round of speeches fizzled Tuesday when hundreds of police sealed off Merdeka Square with iron barricades.

35.   An earlier round of talks last week ended without any accord.

36.   An earlier round of talks went nowhere.

37.   An earlier round of tests Thursday showed what might have been a brain wave.

38.   An earlier round of production cuts in March failed to halt the supply glut and prices kept falling all spring.

39.   An earlier round of meetings hosted by South Africa in February proved fruitless, with the two sides never meeting in the same room.

40.   An earlier round of tests made on Thursday showed what might have been a brain wave.