11.   He then spent two weeks exposing his sons to the world dad has left behind.

12.   Hollings, knowing that his fellow lawmakers did not want to be drawn into a battle on the Senate floor, spent weeks trying to smoothe out differences.

13.   Marble spent weeks traveling through Wyoming on high school vacations, passing ranches that were miles away from one another.

14.   The kids had spent weeks making Thanskgiving costumes.

15.   The whales gorge themselves in the channel this month and next after having spent weeks feeding in the more sheltered Cape Cod Bay since late winter.

16.   Vendrell has spent weeks monitoring rising tensions between powerful warlords who control much of post-Taliban Afghanistan.

17.   We spent two weeks there last summer, and it was so relaxing.

18.   Allies and adversaries of Chavez have spent weeks arguing who is responsible for the violence.

19.   Arminda Mahlanga of Chokwe has spent weeks sleeping on the ground, having lost everything she owned in the floods.

20.   But outside the city the Taliban spent weeks preparing for their assault, demanding the resignation of President Burhanuddin Rabbani and his military chief Ahmed Shah Masoud.