11.   For most of the first decade of the manhunt, the three federal agencies involved operated separately, a situation that some critics believe hampered their efforts.

12.   Five such shipments are planned from late this year through the first decade of the next century.

13.   For the first decade it worked reasonably well, with joint plans to stimulate economies and curb the use of oil.

14.   For the first decade of his research, almost none said yes.

15.   For the first decade, the USC graduate considered his television career a lark, and was still contemplating what to do with his life.

16.   Genentech took some detours during its first decade.

17.   Franzen has written the best novel of the year, probably of the first decade of the new century.

18.   Having survived its first decade with a single set of small cars, Saturn at last adds some new models.

19.   He spent most of his first decade in New York as a television technician.

20.   Historians will look back on the first decade of the post-Cold War era as a squandered opportunity.