1.   The last stretch of road is a narrow lane bordered by trees.

2.   Steve breathed, impressed, as they trundled up the last stretch of drive after the gates had clanked shut behind them.

3.   And then on the last stretch she got this little kick, and off she went.

4.   As President Kim Young Sam approaches the last stretch of his term, the biggest problem he faces has nothing to do with his policies or his politics.

5.   - Sister Magdalena Garay has a front-row seat to the urban sprawl devouring the last rustic stretches of the San Fernando Valley along its northeastern foothills.

6.   Bouncing and jostling, the Jeep lurches up the last stretch of road.

7.   But it was the last desolate stretch of road into Israel that seemed to unnerve them.

8.   But many Hungarian drivers avoid the last stretch of the highway, which opened last year, because they say the tolls are too high.

9.   Most of all, they enjoyed the powerful advantage of controlling that last stretch of copper wire connecting millions of homes and offices to their phone service.

10.   On the last stretch, the difference in the position was impossible to detect.