1.   Ok, it seems quite a few people are into this fantasy soccer thing.

2.   If anything, that picture is more disturbing than it seemed a few months ago, making the need for campaign finance reform all the more urgent.

3.   It seems a few days of drought may have changed all that.

4.   Seems a few folks were shocked.

5.   Suddenly, the chance for Roddick to meet one of his childhood idols in the final is not as far-fetched as it might have seemed a few days ago.

6.   That may be the way it seemed a few months ago, but it is not Dynegy that has filed for bankruptcy.

7.   What seemed like an endless bounty of cheap gas a few years ago now seems more precarious.

8.   The numbers are increasing rapidly, so it is becoming a bigger market than it seemed just a few years ago.

9.   The North Korean nuclear issue appears less urgent than it seemed a few months ago with much of the tension defused in bilateral talks with the United States.