1.   This lightning campaign undertaken in the depths of winter while most people were still celebrating Christmas had the desired effect.

2.   And, Taylor said, patriotic holidays have lost so much significance that most people celebrate them by catching department store sales.

3.   Around the country, people are celebrating the comet with a joy quite unlike the trepidation that similar sightings spurred in past millenniums.

4.   At the camp and in the neighboring town of Jacksonville, where half the men seem to have crewcuts, people celebrated.

5.   Back home, Woo claims, people celebrated his success in the United States.

6.   After evening prayers and supper, many young people celebrate Ramadan by setting off firecrackers late into the night.

7.   Even as people celebrated, they remembered with deep bitterness the years of constant hardship and repression endured under military rule, all for espousing the ideal of democracy.

8.   Five days from now at midnight, exactly a year after most people prematurely celebrated the event, the dawn of the Third Millennium finally arrives for real.

9.   Five months ago, people here triumphantly celebrated in the streets when the Hindu nationalist-led government conducted nuclear tests.

10.   For hundreds of years, Japanese people have been celebrating the New Year by eating an extremely chewy type of rice cake known as mochi.