1.   Analysts and institutional investors said British Telecom had several possible options for responding, but that buying MCI was the least likely of them.

2.   And now Manhattan, seemingly the least likely of places, has become a critical element in how the company plans to make its rebirth happen.

3.   Any chance Cleveland had of overtaking the Yankees and forcing a deciding seventh game ended on a costly error by the least likely of players.

4.   All that is good fun, although most likely of limited interest to those who are not devotees of the film.

5.   But now, in what would have once been the least likely of chances, it has a shot at football greatness.

6.   Cooke, she said, was the most likely of all to rush out and help carry the groceries from the car into the house.

7.   Even the least likely of candidates for mainstream radio, the super-heavy Slipknot, has a captivating tune on its hands, Left Behind.

8.   Firms employing between three and nine workers are the least likely of all employers to offer health benefits.

9.   From four years of village debates and construction work, a new institution had emerged from the least likely of sites.

10.   He said the company would continue making acquisitions, likely of the small software companies it has been buying of late.