31.   While diets and corporate cost-cutting help explain the trend, executives are generally too busy working to bother with a fancy midday meal.

32.   Most were the children of peasant farmers who could not afford to send them to school with a midday meal.

33.   The inspector had been walking home for a midday meal.

34.   While Muslims across the border in Afghanistan and worldwide went without lunch, the Khasanov family invited guests for a midday meal of spicy meat dumplings and vodka.

35.   Witnesses at the shooting said a gunman fled in a car after Samperio was shot at point-blank range as he walked to his home for a midday meal.