11.   By the time the matter got to a second trial, the judge had reconsidered the scope of the patents.

12.   Enthusiasm for institutional religion may be waning, Cox said, but interest in religious questions and spiritual matters is getting stronger.

13.   Even its sponsor is doubtful the matter will get swift attention.

14.   For the CIA these days, just when it seems matters can get no worse, they do.

15.   Here is where matters get quite difficult very fast.

16.   However, while a settlement was being negotiated, the matter got even dicier.

17.   If matters get more delightfully absurd for Mariners fans, there is danger of spontaneous combustion from bliss overload.

18.   In the centuries that followed, matters got worse.

19.   Last December, matters got so bad that Crist appointed Sean Harrigan, a board newcomer, to lead a committee examining the way the board governed itself.

20.   Liberties are taken and matters get out of hand.