11.   Brian Thomas Cummins was the fourth of six boys who remained close all their lives.

12.   But he clung to a desperate hope that Ali, the fourth of his seven children, would survive.

13.   By that time, according to Carcaterra, he was at the Daily News and the fourth of the friends was an assistant district attorney in Manhattan.

14.   Cain said he recently received the fourth of the six shots necessary to be vaccinated against anthrax.

15.   Chief among his troubles was a second-quarter fumble, his fourth of the season.

16.   Ehrhard was the fourth of five close siblings whose parents split up when she was young.

17.   Ewing was fouled but missed two of three free throws, and the Knicks went on to lose their fourth of the last six games at the Garden.

18.   He is now writing the fourth of the series.

19.   He almost a fourth of the way there.

20.   He has non-Hodgkins lymphoma, and just completed the fourth of six scheduled rounds of chemotherapy.