11.   It takes but one angry juror willing to believe an abuse excuse over a mountain of evidence to cause a mistrial.

12.   Ito ruled for the defense with dispatch, and predicted that the second test of jury purity would take but a day.

13.   It takes but a glance at his NHL coaching record to come to that conclusion.

14.   Nothing to take away but the memory of a hurtful defeat.

15.   That repair takes but a few minutes.

16.   The process takes but a few seconds and makes it possible for golfers that follow to have a smoother, flatter surface on which to putt.

17.   Whatever you may have been listening to on the radio will be lost in the whine, but the act of passing will take but seconds.

18.   With the mid-morning commerce of the Van Nuys neighborhood in the background, the shootout took but a few seconds.

19.   But the Serbs also insisted that the U.N. no longer take Bosnian citizens on flights, because it meant Muslims were taken but no Serbs.

20.   By The Associated Press DVD players have quickly taken off but it may be some time before DVD recorders go mainstream.