11.   The raids were particularly delicate because the police believe that the group may have stockpiles of nerve gas, as well as guns and other weapons.

12.   The Soviet Union produced at least that much of a similar agent called V-gas, and also has vast stockpiles.

13.   There have been intelligence reports, for example, that North Korea may have a stockpile of the virus, possibly for use in biological warfare.

14.   To have stockpiles fall in the weeks they normally reach their peak for the year also worried traders.

15.   While most cities were scrambling for war-time cash, the Lilac City apparently had a stockpile.

16.   Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia have huge stockpiles of tusks from elephants that died naturally, were culled to limit populations or were killed for threatening people.

17.   Philips Electronics NV has a stockpile of semiconductors but has no plans to halt production, the consumer electronics giant said Friday.

18.   Both the United Nations and ICRC have stockpiles of food ready to go to Albania.

19.   Both companies said they still had stockpiles, and they would not comment on how many days they were expected to last.