1.   The contractors will start building the tunnel next month.

2.   Federal contractors were just starting to follow the order because the Labor Department was only now setting rules about it.

3.   In fact, contractors recently started work on a new house in Marysville, complete with a therapeutic hot tub and many of his own designs built in.

4.   Is it too much to hope that contractors might actually start returning phone calls?

5.   Speculation grew in the stock market that some contractors may start failing, as sluggish economic growth and declining land and stock prices pinch cash flows.

6.   The contractor usually starts accepting summer job applications in April.

7.   EPA contractors are also starting to feel the budget pinch with a wave of stop-work orders sent by the agency.

8.   Schneider said a Public Works Department contractor started removing debris from the beach, main dock and the closed hotel at the island.

9.   Some American contractors started pulling their staffs out of the Serb-held areas in Bosnia last week, sources said.