41.   The French say their devotion to the single currency as a vital step toward creating a federal Europe remains as deep as ever.

42.   The June drop was more than twice as deep as the initial estimate.

43.   The sense of victimization among Serbs is as deep as their defiance against the West.

44.   Then, of course, there is still Bledsoe and his corps of receivers, as deep as any team in the NFL.

45.   They are as deep as a term paper on existentialism.

46.   They required the actress to plumb psychological depths as deep as any in her career.

47.   They are potholes, some as big around and deep as bathtubs, some just rough ruts, and they are everywhere.

48.   Throughout his career, with gestures large and small, Thurmond has built a reservoir of goodwill as deep as Lake Hartwell.

49.   To fill the crack, chip it out an inch wide and as deep as practicable.

50.   Was it the dialogue, in which hit men discussed subjects as mundane as Big Macs and as deep as destiny?