31.   Sporadic automatic gunfire was heard shortly after the explosion.

32.   Sporadic fire from the Serb side of Sniper Alley was heard after the attack.

33.   Sporadic sniper fire from the Serb side of Sniper Alley was heard after the attack on the streetcar.

34.   That is hardly what Argentines want to hear after eight austerity programs in two years.

35.   The ARU said an appeal would be heard after the Easter break and the Sharks were expected to argue that the charge was too harsh.

36.   The daughter was either freed or escaped, police said, and shortly after shots were heard inside the apartment.

37.   The Kosovo Liberation Army was first heard of after a series of well-organized attacks, particularly targeting Serb policemen, which began last February.

38.   The North Carolina case was the first the court heard after returning from a two-week recess.

39.   The skies over the front-line positions north of Kabul were quiet during daylight hours Sunday, but the roar of U.S. jets could be heard after sunset.

40.   Those are words Chinese leaders must have been longing to hear after a week of complaints from participants in the parallel NGO Forum on women, which opened Wednesday.