21.   The deadline looms.

22.   The fact that the deadline is looming so close hardly comes as a shock to the people involved.

23.   The nonwaiver trading deadline looms.

24.   Training, staffing and equipment-decision deadlines are also looming for some.

25.   Training, staffing and equipment decision deadlines are also looming for some.

26.   When deadlines loom, who wants to leave the house and roam the stacks of a library in search of a book?

27.   Zoo Director Mark Wourms has known at least since April, but he did not inform his staff or his supervisors that a deadline was looming.

28.   Others, however, have been left searching for new suppliers as their summer terms are about to begin and deadlines loom for fall book orders.

29.   A deadline loomed over the hand counts in Florida counties.

30.   A deadline was looming over the hand counts in Palm Beach and other Florida counties.