21.   Hopes were raised again with a superb performance at Shrewsbury.

22.   Then last month new hope was raised.

23.   And news of the DoT decision to look at the interchange this week raised the hopes of green campaigners opposed to the cross-town route.

24.   The survey results, which are closely watched by Government and in the City, will raise hopes that the end of the recession may be in sight.

25.   A SURGE in mortgage activity raised fresh hopes yesterday that the housing market has finally turned the corner.

26.   At first his appointment, last May, raised hopes that the new Russian army would become an island of internal stability.

27.   And a report that a Polish plane has conducted the first ever direct evacuation from Kuwait of a hundred refugees, have further raised hopes here.

28.   An earlier visit to a law office raised his hopes, but led to nothing.

29.   Analysts said the remarks raised hopes the project, the biggest ever foreign investment in India, would be saved.

30.   An American plane raised hopes here Tuesday night by bombing the Barikab munitions dump on the Taliban side of the valley.