51.   The preliminary ruling would narrow the field of competition to run cellular systems in competition with service now provided by state- controlled regional units of Telecomunicacoes Brasileiras SA.

52.   The Spurs have dropped out of the bidding for lack of ammunition, narrowing the field to three.

53.   This line of questioning chips away at the identity of a source by narrowing the field.

54.   Two years later, the group narrowed the field to US Olympic Committee executive director Harvey Schiller and Northwestern University president Arnold Weber.

55.   Tulsa President Bob Lawless heads a four-member committee that will review and narrow the field of candidates.

56.   Valero decided to pursue a sale now, before a spate of similar transactions narrows the field of potential suitors.

57.   Whenever it comes time to pick a new bench boss, they immediately narrow the field by looking for a bilingual candidate.

58.   When the field was narrowed to infants who died of asphyxia, the difference in mortality rates was close to four times.

59.   Within the last two weeks, department higher-ups have begun narrowing the field through a series of phone interviews.

60.   With nine proposals for the Coliseum, the transportation authority said it expects to narrow its field to a shorter list in late March or early April.