1.   Stevens and his merry band are severely uniformed in white blazers, violently creased red flares and clean fingernails.

2.   A few hours later it was a merry band that wended its way back to the hall and marked out sleeping spaces for the night.

3.   In a radio interview yesterday, the Lord Mayor of Derby, offered high hopes to the newcomer in its merry band.

4.   And they admitted that their merry band of rebels would benefit from some Republican reinforcements.

5.   At TNT, Pearl led his merry band in a newsy, fun, loose production.

6.   A merry band of sexy women is set loose on Washington with the specific goal of seducing important government executives.

7.   Absurd on the face of it is the notion that Newt Gingrich, Bob Dole and their merry band of Reagan throwbacks will right all the wrongs.

8.   First there were the minimum-salary Pirates, then the Mets without Pete Harnisch and then Calvin Maduro and his merry band of sketchy Phillies.

9.   See how well she and her merry band of zealots have done their job?

10.   So what is the appeal of Asterix and his merry band of Gauls?