11.   This provision was introduced towards the end of the parliamentary process and was passed without any apparent debate at all.

12.   However, Petrey simply defines them in passing without warning readers of the importance, and potential difficulty, of fixing these terms clearly in their minds.

13.   Three days passed without hearing anything from him.

14.   After several minutes had passed without her finding a familiar landmark, Luce realised she must have gone wrong somewhere and tried to double back.

15.   How could she permit another minute to pass without telling him, to his face, what he could do with his lies and insinuations?

16.   It can be a lonely, isolated life on a farm and a whole day often passes without meeting or talking to anyone.

17.   Scarcely a day passes without us reading in the newspapers or seeing on television assaults, batteries, violent acts of all kinds.

18.   Although the period passed without her seeking professional help, she now wishes she had.

19.   Although time seems shorter than an elf during the holidays, some folks are unable to let the season pass without baking cookies.

20.   An hour passed without Sonnenfeld even approaching the can, and then Jones strode onto the set.