11.   After six months of calling, writing letters and being passed from office manager to billing supervisor to refund supervisor, I finally received a check.

12.   All the while, he has been receiving welfare checks.

13.   Browner said the case was exposed when one of the workers complained to local authorities about not receiving his check from the subcontractor.

14.   Bruce recalled that Barry phoned him the day after receiving the check.

15.   But it would do so by every month giving a little less money than now planned to tens of millions of voters who receive checks from the federal government.

16.   But later Friday, Hume said that the check had been received by the RGA, which operates out of the same building as the RNC.

17.   But she was forced to wait seven months before receiving a check, and she is now seeking back payments.

18.   But their shoulders sagged as they turned in their barely broken-in uniforms and received their checks.

19.   But their troubles began in a previous age and continued over decades when they regularly received welfare checks.

20.   But while there are many fewer layoffs these days, the number of people receiving unemployment checks hit a new high this week.