51.   As the sequel begins, a year has passed and Owen has just proposed to Anna.

52.   As the years have passed, Windegger has watched a business change almost totally.

53.   As the years pass, the dinner hour drifts from early afternoon to early evening and back again.

54.   As the years passed, no other family member tried to get back the painting.

55.   As the years passed, she took him for dead.

56.   As the years passed, younger generations, now born in America, did not have the original cuisine in their memory.

57.   As years passed, my choice of heroes would have about it a certain brilliance.

58.   As years passed and her anger grew, she wondered exactly what the little blue pills had contained.

59.   As years passed, aware of the custom and intensely proud of the mural, the spirited Breyer wondered if Simms might return one more time.

60.   As years passed, corporate America changed.