31.   Scores of men of lesser standing also crowded the entrance, here to gawk or in the faint hope of directly delivering some plea.

32.   Stern nurtures the faint hope that if there are lots of bins and hooks and cubbies, the girls will clean up after themselves.

33.   That always seemed a faint hope.

34.   The Dodgers turned a week of optimism that bred faint hope into the fact they made up a half game in the standings and another week has passed.

35.   The Lions are still clinging to some faint hopes of making the playoffs.

36.   The one faint hope in this dreary landscape is Christie Whitman, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency.

37.   The worst of the drop is over, though traders hold only faint hope that prices will recover much any time soon.

38.   There is one faint hope.

39.   There is some faint hope that the new book may help change that.

40.   There is some faint hope of more vigorous American involvement when the vice president, Dick Cheney, tours the region later this month.