1.   But even such modest gains were expensive.

2.   Delegate gains would be less significant for small states, leading to their possible objections to the proposal.

3.   The gain was mostly because of increased income from investment management and trust services.

4.   There have been gains for nature conservation in that the storms have prompted a fundamental questioning of the received view.

5.   There will be some gains, including faster growing forests, less snow and lower heating bills.

6.   There are obvious gains for the student.

7.   The only Republican gain was in North Dakota.

8.   Another possible gain in efficiency is to hold the indexes of the inverted file in sequential order so that the binary search can be applied.