1.   She made a slight bow and wheeled to the next desk.

2.   He was next desk to me for three or four years.

3.   And on the next desk over, a computer stands, as if to mock this all-too-human endeavor.

4.   And the three-car owner at the next desk wants to know where to go to surrender.

5.   Crunchers, slurpers, spitters, open-mouthed chewers, and burpers are much more annoying when seated at the next desk than they are at the next restaurant table.

6.   Does he or she fail to make as many perfect widgets as the worker at the next desk?

7.   Every day after lunch, Katrina Resevic beds down under a desk next to a mailroom copier, lulled by the hum of the machine.

8.   If it can be figured the same way, says the man at the next desk, his weight is too.

9.   It reminds the man at the next desk of when he once got an F-plus on a test.

10.   No one wanted to see the man at the next desk in a swimsuit.