41.   In prior years, the department typically responded to no more than a half-dozen anthrax incidents a year, all of them false alarms, officials said.

42.   Judge Frankel was free to weigh this unsavory history against what I had accomplished in the four drug-free years prior to my recent relapse.

43.   Net income in the prior year included the gain from selling D.C. Heath.

44.   No comparison was given for the prior year.

45.   Only four were girls, a lopsidedness that has occurred in prior years.

46.   Only a handful of the locals have settled their contracts with GM, fewer than in prior years.

47.   Productivity rises when a worker produces more goods or services in an hour on the job than he did the prior year.

48.   She and her team of CDC investigators spent much of the prior year tracking the various flu strains around the globe.

49.   Stricter standards implemented the prior year were determined to be the prime reason.

50.   That followed charges last year from the sale of the equities business of its BZW investment banking unit, and higher costs the prior year.