1.   Bardot was still recovering from shock after narrowly missing being shot earlier this year by hunters killing her pets.

2.   But that review did not anticipate the additional burdens placed on our military in the past few years by international peace operations.

3.   But though I refused to age, the students and the other teachers grew younger year by year.

4.   Foot said that he could cut unemployment to under one million in five years by public spending, tax reduction and devaluation.

5.   Further uniformity was assured by a single system for auditing the numerous accounts rendered each year by the different financial agencies.

6.   His superb physical shape has been honed over the years by a practical approach to food and exercise.

7.   Local housing authorities have been starved of cash for a number of years by the Government.

8.   Marks has kept himself in the public eye for years by filing bizarre lawsuits.

9.   One particularly curious example was found this year by a warden repairing a wall at Studland in Dorset.