51.   These conditions are expected to persist into sunday.

52.   These marine conditions are expected to persist into tonight before a slow but gradual increase in seas is seen across our local Atlantic waters.

53.   This tight situation will persist into June, as production will barely meet demand in the next few months.

54.   Health problems snowball if obesity persists into adulthood, health experts warned.

55.   A UN-Iraq crisis persisted into a fourth day Friday as Baghdad grounded a UN helicopter in further defiance of the United Nations.

56.   But since Tuesday the level has again risen dangerously, and weather forecasters expected the rains in western Germany to persist into Thursday at least.