21.   In the main floor music room, guests will gather before the largest of three original fireplaces in the hotel, crafted by regionally famous Van Briggle Pottery.

22.   Mandela exhorted the children gathered before him Wednesday to stay away from drugs and alcohol and work hard in school.

23.   Mourners from around the world gathered before the gilded altar to pay their final respects to the most influential Roman Catholic leader in America.

24.   Officials generally assigned higher priority to making sure that possibly irreplaceable January figures were collected than on processing December figures gathered before the shutdown.

25.   She waved a bejeweled hand to the small crowd gathered before her.

26.   Some of the refugees had gathered before.

27.   Sunday, the neighbors from Hyde Park and Stateway began gathering just before dusk as children from both worlds raced around distributing candles.

28.   That ease could be found in a suite at a midtown hotel Saturday morning, where members gathered before a scheduled trip to Ellis Island.

29.   The officials were gathering before the arrival of Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak for peace talks.

30.   The president made note of that fact in his address to the cheering university crowd, which began gathering before dawn.