21.   Officials expect the trial to last about a month.

22.   Party leaders described over and over how the senators would, as long as the trial lasted, reserve the mornings for dealing with national policy.

23.   Prosecutors had earlier estimated the trial could last about three months.

24.   Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott has not yet set a schedule for a trial and there is no indication how long a trial would last.

25.   The conspiracy trial lasted four days.

26.   The damage trial lasted one month.

27.   The trial could last two months, lawyers said.

28.   The trial could last until the end of July.

29.   The trial lasted four weeks.

30.   The trial lasted more than three weeks as jurors considered a complex set of paper trails and other evidence of financial fraud.