21.   But what a wild ride the last year has been!

22.   By any standard, this is a wild ride.

23.   Car trips with children can be one wild ride, my friends.

24.   College basketball is normally a wild ride anyway, but this season could prove truly memorable locally if only for its depth.

25.   Computer chip specialist Semtech Corp. has seen its stock take a wild ride this year, even by the overheated standards of the volatile high-tech sector.

26.   Energy prices have gone on a wild ride lately, roiling consumers and industry alike.

27.   Even for Excite At Home, an Internet start-up accustomed to the pirouette of the online industry, Monday was a wild ride.

28.   Errol Flynn would have loved this wild ride over the shallow rapids of the Rio Grande.

29.   Except pro sports games, big concerts, wild rides and such.

30.   Flight engineers describe the descent to landing as a wild ride, and the bouncing arrival as anything but dignified.