1.   Father Christmas dropped by during the meal.

2.   Sales of Hennessy and Hine cognac have also suffered, particularly in Japan where consumption dropped during the year.

3.   Although stocks have dropped during that time, he said he was not eager to start buying again.

4.   Americans Karen Kurreck and Mari Holden of Colorado Springs, Colo., dropped out during the race.

5.   And food donations often drop off during summer months.

6.   And if the connection gets dropped during transmission, there is a recovery system that is supposed to enable transmission to pick up where it left off.

7.   And the balls of light were high-intensity flares dropped during a training exercise.

8.   As for the others, Wheeler said several of the projects had to be delayed when fees collected from offenders dropped off during the recession.

9.   Arrests also dropped during the same period, as State Police investigators helped federal authorities track leads in the ongoing terrorism investigations.

10.   As interest rates started to drop during the second quarter, the picture improved.