31.   Although she got off to a slow start with the project, it now seems to have its own momentum as she nears completion of her first draft.

32.   An obituary is, in many cases, a first draft of history.

33.   And yet typing www.yahoo.com today elicits a Web site that looks remarkably similar to their first draft.

34.   Another Microsoft witness, Brent Frei, co-founder of the software firm Onyx, acknowledged on Thursday that Microsoft lawyers wrote the first draft of his testimony for him.

35.   As he prepares for his first draft as general manager of the Texans, Casserly offers a blunt assessment of many of his Washington choices.

36.   Asmar asked his students to point out any errors they found in the first draft of a textbook he was writing at the time.

37.   Assuming Fox approves the first draft, Harrigan will stay in Los Angeles and finish the final script.

38.   At the time Borges wrote the first drafts of the two poems, he was living with his family in Geneva and Lugano.

39.   Ball had pulled back in the first draft, a reflex from his network years.

40.   A first draft, based entirely on news accounts of the case, was done by early October, White said.