1.   The imports, along with improved farm output, helped stabilize commodity prices beginning the middle of last year.

2.   Defense has carried the team through much of the stretch of success that began the middle of last season.

3.   Its minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Abdul Razak said yesterday that the teachers will be trained in the local training colleges beginning the middle of this year.

4.   The EPF has to work within the prevailing financial climate, keeping in mind that the downturn began middle of last year.

5.   Raduyev has been charged with terrorism, hostage-taking, murder and organized crime in a trial that began the middle of last month.