31.   He said he needed the rest and chose to remain near his North Carolina home.

32.   He remains near Kandahar leading his forces against the Taliban.

33.   He was hit by stray gunfire last year, and the bullet remains near his spine.

34.   However, he added that he expects the market to remain near current levels.

35.   In California, for instance, officials feared that the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers would remain near flood level until the end of January.

36.   Instead of remaining near the base on a fly to left, Johnson jogged to third, believing there were three outs.

37.   In these unsettling tales, a survivor of a plane crash changes into a bird and a woman transforms herself into a plant to remain near her boyfriend.

38.   Insurance and bank shares slipped as U.S. Treasury bond yields remained near one-month highs.

39.   Institutional investors have become more nervous than they had been about the risks of a market that remains near a record high, relative to corporate earnings.

40.   It has remained near this level throughout the past year.