81.   By early afternoon, several hundred onlookers had gathered at the house while a county worker scrubbed dried blood off four front steps.

82.   By early afternoon, the car was ready.

83.   By early afternoon, the city was nearly deserted, but security remained on high alert.

84.   By early afternoon, the seven members emerged and announced they had agreed unanimously to take only one more week to choose a new chancellor.

85.   By early afternoon, the wind and rain were fierce enough to overturn a sailboat in Great Kills Harbor, off the Staten Island coast.

86.   By early afternoon, we stopped for lunch at the Herat Restaurant, where he ordered rice mixed with raisins, carrots and lamb.

87.   By early afternoon, with rumbling thunder promising a hard rain, they quit for the day and paused to talk coffee economics.

88.   By early afternoon Tuesday, a Time Warner official said most of the problem was resolved when a large new e-mail server computer was put in service.

89.   By early afternoon, bargain hunters were already tossing desks and chairs into pickup trucks and cars.

90.   By early afternoon, Hawkinson had hit a rhythm.