1.   As metabolic activity begins to increase in late winter, fluid pressure also begins to build and the sap starts moving upward in the tree.

2.   A construction loan is typically recorded a few days before building activity actually begins.

3.   But prosecutors allege the illegal activities began years earlier.

4.   Her research activities will begin in earnest early next week.

5.   Influenza activity has begun to rise after a slow start this season, federal health officials said Friday.

6.   It is only when the piles become starved of oxygen that noxious anaerobic activity begins.

7.   Last week, Beijing courts said the trial of the advocate, Fang Jue, on charges of fraud and illegal business activities would begin on Tuesday.

8.   Might he be considered a contender when activity begins at Roland Garros later this month?

9.   Opening-day activities began with the same pomp and circumstance that has accompanied the pandas since they left China in early November.

10.   Only recently has militia activity begun to intensify.