11.   But the complaints have increased over the past year as the five year deadline has come closer.

12.   But the plans went awry as deadlines came and went, and a final deal proved elusive until just hours before the ceremony on Tuesday.

13.   But the trading deadline came and went, and Houston did not make any more moves.

14.   But the missed deadline comes as no surprise.

15.   But the trading deadline came and went.

16.   But Ziering said that as the book deadline came and went, Scheffler refused to show them any results.

17.   By the time the deadline came around, though, Phatra had decided to take a pass.

18.   Do you know how hard it must have been for Steinbrenner, letting the major-league trading deadline come and go without strong-arming his baseball people into doing something?

19.   Even so, the deadline came without the contracts being awarded.

20.   He also thought the first deadline came too early.