1.   Nevertheless, and despite a brutally cold rain, the parade took place as scheduled on Sunday.

2.   Some participants were veterans of a dozen past parades, their disappointment in the low turnout more than balanced by the joy that the parade took place at all.

3.   The parade never took place.

4.   The parade took place shortly after a ceremony at Ground Zero marking the official end to recovery efforts.

5.   The parade took place early Sunday afternoon amid some stone-throwing but no major bloodshed.

6.   The union-led parade took three hours to pass a viewing stand here, partly because of hundred-yard gaps between some of the contingents.

7.   With sunny skies and brisk wind, the famous parade took on a patriotic feel.

8.   Smaller parades also took place in the cities of Lviv, Vinnytsia, Odessa, Chernihiv, and Sevastopol.

9.   The one km long parade took about three hours to cover the six-km route to Kajang and back.

10.   The parade took nearly two hours to reach the park.