1.   It also netted hundreds of thousands of dollars for the GOP.

2.   Nicholas E. Calio had been comfortably ensconced at a successful lobbying firm that carried his name and netted him hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.

3.   The drugs have helped dramatically reduce deaths from testicular cancer and childhood leukemia and netted Lilly hundreds of millions of dollars.

4.   Police also netted hundreds of false Dutch passports.

5.   Police carried out a series of highly publicized crackdowns last week, netting hundreds of illegal immigrants who had either been smuggled in or had overstayed their work visas.

6.   Federal sweeps by law enforcement officials also have netted hundreds of airport workers across the country accused of falsifying Social Security applications and violating immigration laws.

7.   More conventional efforts, by law enforcement agencies, have netted hundreds of suspected associates of the al-Qaida network.

8.   Police sweeps have netted hundreds of people from the banned organisations since Saturday but many senior party officials have gone underground to avoid arrest.