1.   After months without rain, the ground was too hard to plough.

2.   He was deeply moved when Romanian policewoman Carmen Teleanou wrote telling him that her mother Tina would die within months without heart surgery.

3.   And after going for months without a chief financial officer or a chief of merchandising, Hall has finally filled both jobs.

4.   And even residents whose cars had been spared said they were now facing the almost equal nightmare of weeks or months without a place to park in Manhattan.

5.   And the children have gone for more than a month without seeing their parents.

6.   And unlike that prolific period, he now goes weeks or months without making any drawings at all.

7.   And, because police often went months without getting paid, even people with no political opinions risked arrest.

8.   As a result, the deadline for new legislation will pass at the end of this month without even a vote on moving the flag.

9.   Assistant U.S. Trade Rep. Lee Sands returned from a week of talks in Beijing earlier this month without giving any word of progress on the copyright talks.

10.   Assistant U.S. Trade Rep. Lee Sands returned from a week of talks in Beijing earlier this month without giving any word of progress on the talks.