1.   For the past two winters, Susan Tasker-Poland has huddled over just one bar of the gas fire in her Hereford council flat.

2.   An early arrival of cold weather could halt the rebound U.S. gas inventories have made since being halved by robust demand during the past frigid winter.

3.   And the past winter, Bogota, Columbia selected a busway system over seven rail-transit proposals submitted by competing firms.

4.   Archaeologists began concentrated excavation this past winter, after belatedly discovering that it was an important site that was soon to disappear under water.

5.   As a result, the icy polar clouds this past winter grew larger and colder and lasted longer than expected, he said.

6.   At Redden Nets, Maxwell has made only eight nets this past winter.

7.   A free agent this past winter, Franco returned to the Mets for the chance to win the World Series.

8.   But it is also now clear that past winters were never as bad as the wind chill had made them out to be.

9.   But that is nothing compared to the winter just past, Ryan tells me.

10.   But the spurts of growth during the current recovery, like the one this past winter, have not lasted long.