71.   Sometimes weeks pass without a word.

72.   Still, Jacobs and other law enforcement officials now acknowledge that several weeks passed before they accepted that Polly was kidnapped by a stranger.

73.   The Dodgers turned a week of optimism that bred faint hope into the fact they made up a half game in the standings and another week has passed.

74.   The exhaustion also evaporates as weeks pass.

75.   The tragedy of his inept campaign is that he has looked less sound as each week has passed.

76.   The weeks pass.

77.   They concede, in deep frustration, that another two or three weeks will probably pass before the formal announcement of his candidacy.

78.   They spend rather freely, and as the weeks pass they feel less threatened by the economic turmoil elsewhere in the world.

79.   Weeks can pass between his home runs.

80.   Weeks passed before Virginia prosecutors dropped the charges and released him.