1.   And on the final night they crowded the stage.

2.   At rallies and speeches, the stage is always crowded with mayors, state legislators, congressmen and senators.

3.   Everyone crowded the stage at the end.

4.   Jerry Rice is the most practiced practitioner of the art, as he proved again on Monday night, but the stage is getting crowded.

5.   Re-elected by constituency of city employees and poor residents, Barry once was the primary player in the district, but other voices have crowded the stage.

6.   Roosevelt crowds the stage, Morris said.

7.   The Dodgers are still weak up the middle, and the stage is crowded with wild card candidates.

8.   The honorees crowded the stage in the East Room.

9.   The stage is crowded with figures large and small, passionate and disaffected, gloomy and scarily self-assured.

10.   Chretien, striding back and forth with hand-held microphone as his cabinet ministers crowded the stage behind him, easily deflected the few barbs that came his way.