11.   As a means of travel, flying really is safer than getting in your car or using any other means of transportation.

12.   But he thought all the stairwell doors were locked, too, and that this was his only means of getting out of the building.

13.   But the long-term meaning of the words were lost on me.

14.   But the depth of the problem has multiplied as science has discovered new and harder to detect means of building strength, speed, stamina and endurance.

15.   Conservancy officials said the language was inserted as an indirect means of preventing a major reconstruction, and that the conservancy itself had nothing against seismic reinforcement.

16.   For decades, the primary means of screening for both asbestosis and lung cancer was the chest X-ray.

17.   Gene Hackman is the wayward head of a dysfunctional family of geniuses in New York, searching for atonement while his kids search for meaning of any kind.

18.   He was not overly familiar with meaning of the annual USC-UCLA showdown.

19.   In an attempt to protect the quality of data and patients, the government and industry have put into effect some means of oversight.

20.   It is the history of music, with its multiple and changing means of delivery, that I found the most encouraging.