31.   A professional writer can labor for years without striking a metaphor to touch that.

32.   A legislative effort to put a similar question on the ballot died in the General Assembly earlier this year without coming to a vote.

33.   A year without a championship is a year closer to that window shutting.

34.   A year without drought somewhere on the continent would be history.

35.   A. Robots should be designed and placed in the outside world, where they can perform unsupervised tasks for years without human supervision.

36.   A whole year without basketball she means.

37.   A winter festival in a year without a winter can feel like a stretch.

38.   Abiomed has kept the artificial heart beating in the laboratory for more than a year without mechanical failure, Lederman said.

39.   Administration officials said Republicans will be unable to pass all the necessary appropriations bills this year without violating strict spending caps that both parties have pledged to honor.

40.   After a year without a chief financial officer, Campbell Soup Co. is reaching out to the investor community, and raising the possibility of significant change ahead.