51.   I found it quite wondrous, because in earlier years the same shrubs had sailed through unremitting spring rains.

52.   In addition to technology wizards, that immigrant population includes musicians and artists and many retirees, the relatives of those who came in earlier years.

53.   In earlier years, he had served as chairman of the Hospital Association of New York State and of the Greater New York Hospital Association.

54.   In earlier years, Sun twice approached Apple about a possible merger, according to current and former Sun executives.

55.   In earlier years, the mayor has pushed for more police in the schools and more control over school security matters.

56.   In earlier years, Tsiang, a soft-spoken Shanghai native, spurned many lucrative offers to leave Wang.

57.   In earlier years, umpires seemed to do whatever possible to end an argument, not escalate it.

58.   In earlier years, Woolf generally had farmed out money management to outside firms.

59.   In earlier years the CIA repeatedly defied this obligation.

60.   In earlier years, fights over civil rights, offshore oil, and the First World War produced not days but weeks of deadlock.