31.   Formal approval for investigations commonly takes six months.

32.   Formal approval is not expected before Monday or Tuesday.

33.   Grachev said Yeltsin would have to give formal approval to the political consultation arrangement, and allied ambassadors are expected to do so in Brussels on Thursday.

34.   He and other analysts said the drug could win formal approval from the FDA as early as the end of this year.

35.   He met Yeltsin then and got the government to issue passports to players who had defected or left without formal approval.

36.   However, baseball officials have provided no formal approval, if any is needed.

37.   In addition, the spasticity drug Zanaflex is expected to help make Athena become profitable once it gains formal approval to be sold in the U.S.

38.   It now awaits formal approval by the drug companies and a federal court judge in Chicago.

39.   It may take as long as a year for the consortium that oversees Web activity to grant formal approval of the standard.

40.   It is preparing to submit its data to the Food and Drug Administration with expectations of formal approval next year.