21.   Inventories are low after cold weather during the past winter fuelled robust heating demand.

22.   Inventories are running behind last year because the past cold winter fueled brisk demand.

23.   In winters past, management has sent topcoats to Miami and snowblowers to Puerto Rico.

24.   Inventories in the U.S. and Europe still are running far behind last year after the past cold winter and a push by refiners to cut costs.

25.   Inventories tumbled during the past cold winter and never reached levels considered adequate during the summer and early autumn.

26.   It was insult added to the injury of this past miserable winter.

27.   Job growth always picks up after the winter, and unusually warm weather this past winter accentuated the normal effect.

28.   Javier retired this past winter after spending the past two seasons with the Mariners.

29.   Jean-Georges Vongerichten said his celery root soup with chestnuts and pancetta had been on the menu at his Mercer Kitchen in winters past.

30.   Krone regained her effectiveness only this past winter, when she raced at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans for the first time.