21.   By the time the new league kicks it off, nearly two years will have passed since Romario and the boys from Brazil left town.

22.   Decades have passed since the last whale hunt off remote Cape Flattery.

23.   Eight days had passed since the last suicide bombing in Israel, and Israelis and Palestinians were focused on fresh U.S. efforts to restart negotiations between the two sides.

24.   Eight months have passed since the Princess of Wales died in what French authorities have called a straightforward car crash.

25.   Eight years have passed since the last desperate cry from Cubans held indefinitely in U.S. detention facilities as undesirables.

26.   Eleven years had passed since the trial, the records had been burned and the prosecution could recall reasons for challenging only three of the six excluded blacks.

27.   Eight months have passed since men in Bosnian Serb uniforms who forced their way into the church and monastery and blew it apart with dynamite.

28.   Eight years have passed since that spring day when the three first took the field together.

29.   Fifteen years, five seasons and two career changes have passed since Robinson last lost consecutive collegiate games.

30.   Fifteen months had passed since the attack.