41.   The conference began Monday night and will end Saturday.

42.   The conference begins officially Monday afternoon.

43.   The five-day conference began on Saturday and Ashcroft is scheduled to address it on Tuesday.

44.   The five-week U.N. conference began Monday.

45.   The ILO conference began last week with the arrival a global march against child labor in Geneva.

46.   The international global warming conference begins in Kobe, Japan, on Monday.

47.   The official, Michael Melchior, said a final decision will be made just before the conference begins Friday, but that he did not think Israel will attend.

48.   The three-day conference began a day after U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney warned that future attacks on the United States are likely.

49.   The two-day conference begins Saturday.

50.   They agreed, for example, that the conference should begin in Geneva six weeks after the end of preliminary talks.