31.   Plans for a government storage facility were delayed, in large part by a long fight about where to put the nuclear waste.

32.   Queen Noor and the king grew particularly close during his long fight with cancer.

33.   Queen Noor and the king had grown particularly close and influential during his long fight with cancer.

34.   Pitofsky, whose former law firm represented Bantam Doubleday during its long fight with the FTC, did not participate in the case.

35.   Reports circulated Friday morning that the Taliban were digging trenches around the city in preparation for a long fight.

36.   Several of those who lost money in the collapse of American Continental and Lincoln were thankful the long fight had finally ended.

37.   Settling in for a long fight, the rebels aim to acquire German antitank weapons, heavy machine guns, sniper rifles and rocket-propelled grenades.

38.   So the same advocates who a week ago celebrated victory in their long fight for approval reacted with dismay Wednesday.

39.   The arguments during the preliminary stages of the trial were the opening of what promises to be a long fight over what evidence will be allowed in the case.

40.   The Berjaya group, controlled by the businessman Vincent Tan, launched a hostile bid on MUI that year in what turned out to be a long fight.