31.   The program has been cut before.

32.   The sophomore outfielder asked athletic director Paul Bubb for his release Tuesday, cutting himself before his team could get cut by school administrators.

33.   The two biggest state expenses are for Medicaid and aid to local school districts, neither one of which a politician wants to cut just before an election.

34.   These wraps are easily prepared the day before and cut just before serving.

35.   They cut him before training camp last season but brought him back before the season opened because of injuries.

36.   U.K. gilts rose, following German bunds higher, amid optimism that U.K. interest rates could be cut before the end of the year.

37.   What this individual has never cut before, obviously, is wet wood.

38.   Wearing one of those nose strips for breathing, Woodruff looked like a boxer whose face had been cut before round one.

39.   With economic growth so robust, the central bank is unlikely to cut interest rates before the second half of the year, Laborde said.

40.   Yacoubou Kassindja, a family elder, said all women must have their genitals cut before marriage, forcibly if necessary.