31.   Since then, talks have yielded little of substance, and the meetings stopped completely last month.

32.   The talks have yielded few results, and prospects for a cease-fire seem distant.

33.   The talks have yielded little since they began two years ago, and in November the FARC suspended them.

34.   The upbeat tone of the statement indicated that the NLD is expecting the closed-door talks to yield results.

35.   The talks did yield a deal on opening an express mail service.

36.   There was no immediate word on whether the talks yielded any progress.

37.   Those talks almost yielded a Golan-for-peace deal, but have been frozen since the right-wing Netanyahu was elected last year.

38.   Those talks yielded an agreement in October under which North Korea promised to freeze its nuclear program, eventually dismantle its reactor, and allow inspections of nuclear sites.

39.   Washington had hoped that the frequent talks would yield some agreement before U.S. President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet in Texas in November.

40.   Yet those talks have yielded few results, and Colombians have grown disenchanted amid ongoing guerrilla attacks and kidnappings.