11.   A large merchandise trade deficit carries risks for the U.S., as shown by the decline of the dollar this year.

12.   Accounting techniques used by large corporations to avoid U.S. income taxes cost Americans billions of dollars each year.

13.   But it is still unclear how the euro will fare against the dollar this year and what kind of challenge it will present over time to the U.S. currency.

14.   But poverty-stricken Mexicans continue to try in every way to sneak into this country, which in turn spends millions of dollars each year trying to keep them out.

15.   But proponents said both provisions were needed to insure fairness to industries that they said must spend hundreds of billions of dollars each year complying with federal regulations.

16.   But those who favor the bill counter that the regulations themselves cost hundreds of billions of dollars each year.

17.   But the rule would also affect anyone receiving grants or contracts, including defense contractors who seek billions of dollars each year for costly weapons systems.

18.   But, he said, he can no longer afford to set aside thousands of dollars each year, as he used to do, for retirement.

19.   Catholic Charities, the social-welfare agency of the Roman Catholic Church, already receives millions of government dollars each year to aid the poor.

20.   Central American refugees send millions of dollars each year to families who stayed behind.