21.   In the week before polling day Kaunda released a report complied five years earlier on drug traffickers in which leading figures in the MMD were implicated.

22.   During the week before the talks, shares on the Mexican stock exchange had fallen sharply on fears that Nafta would be postponed.

23.   Protests demanding the cancellation of the Bush visit had started over a week before his scheduled arrival.

24.   Class examinations will be held during the week before Christmas.

25.   Although these patients may have used bronchodilators intermittently in the past for control of asthma, none required them during the week before endoscopy.

26.   He had taken cophenotrope and loperamide in the week before admission.

27.   Every week he needed more than the week before, and to get a full hit he had to inject.

28.   The date of an election is now known until a few weeks before the event, when the prime minister recommends a dissolution of Parliament to the Queen.

29.   So that was the sort of stuff that did for you for a couple of weeks before Christmas.

30.   But his family say that in the weeks before his death, Richard had appeared worried.