31.   After the final whistle, both teams appeared spent.

32.   After the final whistle, Wild players started to move toward the boards.

33.   But that platform might not extend beyond the final whistle of the game against the Patriots on Sunday.

34.   By the final whistle, she knew she had found her sport.

35.   Fitness will be at a premium in a mid-afternoon game against a team that runs incessantly from kickoff to final whistle.

36.   Football games have a final whistle, and almost always there is a winner and a loser.

37.   Foudy blurted into a television microphone a few seconds after the final whistle.

38.   He had counted down the days to this World Cup since the final whistle in Italy four years ago.

39.   Last March, as the final whistle blew in a chilly Paris stadium, Ireland beat France for the first time in nearly three decades.

40.   Minutes after the final whistle, the Monday-morning quarterbacking began on the Internet.