51.   Sometimes, a stem is not strong enough to hold a heavy seed pod on the tree and it breaks off before reaching maturity.

52.   Spiders stop growing when they reach sexual maturity, so that necessarily means maturing smaller.

53.   Such populations would have a better chance of reaching sexual maturity and reproducing before being hunted down.

54.   The bulk of fields probably will reach full maturity before cold weather arrives and kills the plants, traders said.

55.   The bulk of fields probably will reach full maturity before killing cold weather arrives, traders said.

56.   The debt reaches maturity next Thursday.

57.   The dramatic coloring can fade or deepen as the fish reaches maturity -- potentially adding to or detracting from its show value.

58.   The first wine probably needs several more years to reach maturity, but Les Fiefs is ready now.

59.   The piglets, in turn, reach sexual maturity in six months.

60.   The new groves now reaching maturity were planted in more southerly locations where frost damage is less likely.