41.   Four years in the making, the film is a jaw- dropping spectacle, with one bravura sequence topping the one before.

42.   Have you heard this one before?

43.   He encouraged the government to write a balanced budget that was passed into law faster than any post-Communist one before it.

44.   He got his first dunk three minutes into the game and jammed it through five more times in the first half, each harder than the one before it.

45.   He never had a chance, offering three futile swings at knucklers, each one slower than the one before.

46.   He said many such letters pass across his desk and he needed to review this one before elaborating.

47.   He wants every book to come at readers from a different angle than the one before.

48.   He seldom got a chance to put one before a larger public and see how it would fare, which is the only way to learn in the theater.

49.   His head on the bar, a tall one before him.