71.   The incident was the latest in a long string of safety problems that have afflicted European passenger ferries.

72.   The normal passage of time, and the healing it provides, was interrupted by a long string of court dates.

73.   The new calculations were the latest in a long string in which budget analysts have been surprised by the strength in revenues.

74.   The long string of base pairs is divided into individual genes, each controlling a different characteristic or life process.

75.   The television version is necessarily more literal and amounts, especially in the first four hours, to a long string of often isolated vignettes.

76.   Their long string of victories against smokers who sued them is over.

77.   They are the latest in a long string of similar measures and administrative policies.

78.   They entertain themselves by pulling each other around in cardboard boxes attached to long strings.

79.   They released a long string of CDs on Rounder, and low-paying bar gigs gave way, increasingly, to weddings.

80.   These were only the first of what will be a long string of services and farewells, and improvised shrines and memorials have already popped up around the city.