1.   After all, the show had been canceled before even completing its initial season on ABC last year.

2.   Play was canceled before noon because the wind was blowing balls around the greens.

3.   Quite a few are canceled before then.

4.   Events were canceled minutes before the scheduled start.

5.   In that case, however, the letters of guarantee were canceled before it was too late.

6.   Three sessions of the trial were unexpectedly canceled days before the start of the Grand Prix.

7.   Football matches have been cancelled minutes before kick-off and angry spectators demanded their money back when a baskeball session was shortened by two hours.

8.   Cortina had been slated to host the giant slalom cancelled just before Christmas at Morzine in a giant double-bill here over Saturday and Sunday.

9.   The polls were cancelled before the second round of voting and the FIS, which was poised to win, was later banned in Algeria.

10.   Several events early in the winter sports calendar had to be cancelled before Christmas due to lack of snow.