1.   COUNTY Auctions, Wooler, is to start its own electronic auction business when its contract to EASE ends in August.

2.   As soon as his contract ended, he went and talked to him.

3.   As the Verizon contract ended, the company was just starting to promote its new name and feared an extended bath of negative publicity.

4.   Beard, whose contract ends at the end of the season, sounded a bit worried about that.

5.   Bob Costas will be a free agent in midsummer when his contract ends, raising the legitimate possibility that he and NBC Sports will part.

6.   But losing out on Miller does not mean that Dave Cohen, whose two-year contract has ended, will automatically return as the Yankee play-by-play announcer.

7.   By the time his Island contract ended, however, the company had been bought by Polygram, which was later absorbed by the Universal Music conglomerate.

8.   Frank said that the ABC contract will end at the same time is a coincidence.

9.   He was so uncertain of that answer that he started thinking about what he would do when his contract ended next year.

10.   His contract ends this season.