21.   Once the inquiry began, three players came forward and said that they had brushed against female cadets inadvertently.

22.   One senior health official, speaking only on the condition of anonymity, said the inquiries began at the request of White House officials.

23.   Once their site was carried by larger search engines like Yahoo!, the e-mail inquiries began flooding in.

24.   Patricia Donley, an industry specialist for the National Marine Fisheries Service, said the inquiry had just begun.

25.   Raymond Friedlob, an outside attorney for Denver, said the pay-to-play inquiry began later than the airport-bond investigation.

26.   Since the inquiry began, Beijing and Washington have been exploring even more space cooperation.

27.   Six weeks later, after a researcher pressed the issue with university officials, the present inquiry began.

28.   That announcement, which Starr subsequently reversed, had prompted some administration officials and lawyers involved in the case to speculate that the inquiry had begun to wind down.

29.   That inquiry began just days after Global Crossing, a communications company, filed for bankruptcy protection.

30.   That inquiry began after an anonymous source notified the company in January that there may have been problems in the way Kmart handled areas like vendor allowances.