11.   For now, the team has left only a skeleton crew of seven inspectors behind to monitor video surveillance of suspected weapons sites.

12.   Four women and three men, all employees who left their families during this holiday week to help make up the skeleton crew keeping Edgewater Technology going.

13.   From melting and casting to rolling out new girders, the process is controlled by a skeleton crew of technicians.

14.   His son, Harlan, stitched together a skeleton crew of just six full-time political workers to win the Democratic primary.

15.   In many cases, even among vessels in port and with skeleton crews, the anti-fire, containment and core-cooling systems are not maintained, he said.

16.   Iraq last week expelled U.S. members of a U.N. weapons inspection team, prompting the U.N. to remove all but a skeleton crew of inspectors from Iraq.

17.   It is much cheaper, he said, to employ a skeleton crew that will maintain the equipment than to shut down a mine and then reopen it.

18.   It plans to keep a skeleton crew through October as it winds down operations.

19.   It was a skeleton crew raising all this fuss, though, for trading volume showed that a lot of people did indeed tune out.

20.   Kate Brant, staffing manager for Pro Staff in Boston, remembers helping one young venture beef up its skeleton crew.