11.   Now, though, pilots were worried about the lapses they previously might have let slide.

12.   Of course, ballplayers being ballplayers, the moment was too precious to let slide, too ripe for ripping to simply let fade away.

13.   The danger, Frank said, is that the new owners might let quality slide in favor of increasing production and sales.

14.   When I let the package slide off my fingers and down the black hole, five women cried out, laughed and hugged me.

15.   His latest step was the dispatch of the former diplomat who negotiated the Dayton peace accords, Richard Holbrooke, to boost a process the administration had let slide.

16.   The pact commits nations to seeking a balance budget with the threat of substantial fines if they let the deficit slide.