31.   But administration officials said Monday that after the first wave of emergency improvements are made, other ongoing steps will be needed to upgrade security in later appropriations.

32.   Brown said it was highly unlikely Britain can join in the first wave, repeating remarks reported by the Times of London Saturday.

33.   But as they had said they would, the Falcons stayed out of the first wave of wheeling and dealing.

34.   But beyond that first wave, there is not unity.

35.   But back then, with the first big wave of married women entering the work force, the stigma associated with being a house husband was far more intense.

36.   But some who live in the poorer sections of Atlantic City and Camden arrived later, after the first wave.

37.   But they could be the first wave of a true revolution in the young but burgeoning field of robotics.

38.   But we just finished the first wave of the Internet economy, during which we built out the physical infrastructure and created the key elements of the software platform.

39.   But when the first wave of hype fades, will Talk be too eclectic, too ambitious, too wrong for the times?

40.   California had the first big wave of auto-driven urban centers in the West.