11.   She paused for breath as a sudden thought occurred to her, then leaned forward in her seat, her eyes accusing.

12.   Then a thought occurred to her.

13.   Then a thought suddenly occurred to her.

14.   But then a new thought occurred to her.

15.   Then she grew still as a sudden anxious thought occurred to her.

16.   A thought suddenly occurred to her.

17.   The thought occurred that Christopher Timothy must really have brought the house down with his little joke the day he opened the fete.

18.   And the thought suddenly occurs to me, this NASCAR speedway thing is a cinch to work.

19.   Apparently the same thought occurred to Jung Koh, chief executive of Korea Data Systems, a leading maker of computer monitors and an old friend.

20.   As depressing as it all was, though, the thought occurred that this effort to indict the sweepstakes industry was as pointless as it was grotesque.