1.   All month long, preparation for the play had kept the third through fifth grades preoccupied.

2.   Bush reiterated last week that he wants to hold public schools accountable for academic results by requiring annual state testing in the third through eighth grades.

3.   But from the third through the seventh, he allowed only one more hit.

4.   But he settled in and controlled the Yankees thereafter, giving up just two singles from the third through the seventh.

5.   But the test results came in last week, and every student in third through fifth grade passed, Tatum said.

6.   From the third through the seventh innings, he held the Mets without a hit.

7.   If that does not occur, the three non-national championship bowls need not fill their six slots with the schools ranked third through eighth in the ratings.

8.   In the third through sixth years of the warranty, Wasser said, only material defects are covered.

9.   Johnson and Everett took care of that, combining for five RBIs from the third through the seventh innings.

10.   Myriad possibilities exist the next five days regarding the third through the sixth spots.