11.   Hoping to avoid a crowd, he tried to return by a back stairwell.

12.   Holder stopped short of advising Americans to avoid crowds, a common target of terrorists.

13.   I seek to reduce the physiological and psychological challenges by limiting the period spent in the air and avoiding crowds on the ground.

14.   If anything, it probably discourages shopping by people who would rather avoid the crowds at the malls that weekend.

15.   Most of her customers were home folks, she said, who bought early to avoid the crowds.

16.   One way to avoid the crowds is to hit some smaller off-pricers.

17.   People are staggering their departures and their return home to avoid crowds and satisfy employers who do not want to lose entire staffs to the same vacation schedule.

18.   People say they are less friendly to strangers, avoiding crowds and subways, eating at home more, and clamping down on where their children can go.

19.   Seifert made a final tour of offices upstairs, shook hands all around, then left the building, avoiding a crowd of cameras downstairs.

20.   Skiers gravitate to the edge of the trails, according to NSAA, to avoid crowds and to find better snow.