11.   As the skies cleared from an overnight rainstorm, the forecast for the team remained bleak.

12.   As the sky cleared Monday afternoon, nurses and cooks, housekeepers and lawyers donned sequined and feathered costumes for the procession along Eastern Parkway.

13.   Behind the front, gusty winds from the southwest drying on descent from the Appalachians will cause skies to clear from Washington to Boston.

14.   After flying for hours in a fog, the skies cleared.

15.   After the skies cleared, it took two arduous weeks more to regain the ground lost, that famous bulge.

16.   But after a rainy week that interfered with rehearsals, the skies cleared Friday and the stadium was packed.

17.   But skies will clear in the Hudson Valley and western New England as the storm center moves steadily toward the northeast.

18.   By noon, the skies had cleared, the birds were singing and it felt like a brisk October day.

19.   By the afternoon, gloomy skies had cleared and, if the course dries out, the tees will be replaced.

20.   Eventually, the skies cleared and the fans were spared until the soap-opera Yankees appeared on the field.