31.   But international agencies here in Mazar-e-Sharif, the pre-eminent city of the northern region, predict that things will not change so easily.

32.   But some strikers were reported to be ending their protests, especially in the northern regions of the country.

33.   But the officials said the Iraqis had been less provocative in those northern regions.

34.   Concern about water scarcity has heightened because of a recent drought in northern regions, which some scientists fear is linked to global climate change.

35.   Families in this northern region of Albania have close kin there.

36.   For five years he was denied any access to the northern region.

37.   Greece insists that the former Yugoslav republic cannot call itself Macedonia because that name belongs solely to its own northern region.

38.   He said a number of Korean companies were establishing manufacturing plants in its northern region.

39.   In Scandinavia and other northern regions the populations of small mammals often oscillate in four-year cycles between overabundance and crashes.

40.   In the northern Basque region, which the rebels want to convert into an independent state, large crowds of protesters joined the march, calling the separatists assassins.