11.   Jiri Hrbacek, executive officer at ZB-Trust, a Czech fund management company, had heard for months that Harvard was buying big blocks of stock.

12.   Many of her lottery customers are part of company pools and buy blocks of tickets, she said.

13.   Most candidates hold fund-raisers where lawyers, lobbyists and other special interest representatives buy large blocks of tickets.

14.   Orix has signed a letter of intent to buy the block.

15.   Prepaid services allow consumers to buy blocks of airtime for their mobile phones, with minutes used up and replenished as gas is in an automobile.

16.   So far, a handful of individuals have invested in the Seals, but Peacock is the first investor to buy a block, Skwara says.

17.   Some buy blocks of rooms at the beginning of the year, and thereby use volume purchases to pass savings along to travelers.

18.   The big casinos traditionally buy large blocks of title-fight tickets for their high-rolling best customers.

19.   They fail to take account of the thrifty French habit of buying blocks of cheap, kitchen soap to place in the bathroom.

20.   What emerged was a plan to form a Maine buying block and negotiate prices with the drug companies rather than set the prices outright.