11.   Experts say the market has been evaporating for years, and that the very concept of long-distance calling may one day become obsolete.

12.   Even those who have competed against companies that Jordan made rich, almost single-handedly, were awestruck Tuesday at the very concept of a world without him in uniform.

13.   For Russians, the very concept of an ACLU is new, Glasser said last week before his departure.

14.   Her critics said that, in effect, she was implicitly holding the very concept of foreign aid hostage to her conservative Roman Catholic ideology.

15.   In other words, the measure and the very concept of centuries and millennia are rooted in the chance material of human experience.

16.   Indeed, the very concept of informed consensus has fallen into disrepute.

17.   Instead, with the bell curve, the very concept of the normal was a kind of bridge to the abnormal.

18.   It is the very concept of variability.

19.   Like Caldecott, said Rahn, Potter helped pioneer the very concept of picture books, which depend on byplay between text and pictures.

20.   Mexican businesses were sometimes flustered by the very concept of competition.