11.   Other banks sponsor similar gatherings.

12.   Other European cities have copied the formula, and similar gatherings take place in Brussels, Bonn, Geneva and London.

13.   Several similar gatherings have been held since then between Arabs and Israelis.

14.   Similar gatherings, attracting big audiences, have spread to Alpine, Texas, Riverton, Wyo., Medora, N.D., and many other places.

15.   The Bogota meeting followed similar gatherings in Cali, Medellin and Barranquilla in the last month.

16.   The march and the rally that followed resembled thousands of similar gatherings that have commemorated important anniversaries over the course of the revolution.

17.   The meeting, paid for mainly by private foundations, will be held at the United Nations a week before a similar gathering of world political leaders.

18.   The Rio Summit was a response to similar gatherings of the Americas, and to their proposed Free-Trade Area, or FTAA.

19.   The tributes and services followed a week of similar gatherings, both large and small, but perhaps more telling.

20.   The two spoke at a similar gathering of politicians in Moscow during a summit meeting last May.