1.   Bill Clinton made his final appeal to the voters in the predawn hours of Election Day, in a crowded rodeo arena in South Dakota.

2.   But in the predawn hours, after the army had mustered its own menacing presence, Rais decided that the potential for violence was too great to go forward.

3.   But the sporadic, isolated disturbances suddenly swelled across the country in the predawn hours on Wednesday, even reaching the working-class slums surrounding the capital.

4.   But the sporadic, isolated disturbances suddenly swelled in the predawn hours across the country Wednesday, even reaching the working-class slums surrounding the capital.

5.   Even after the United Nations retracted its announcement in the predawn hours, the streets of Freetown remained tense through the day.

6.   Fighting raged from the predawn hours into the evening both in the Gaza Strip and in the West Bank.

7.   He has mixed with heads of state but sometimes feels more comfortable being out on the golf course in the predawn hours tending to the grasses.

8.   Heavy firing could be heard from the camp until the predawn hours Wednesday.

9.   I woke in a predawn hour to find the business end of a phaser in my ear.

10.   In the predawn hours, Schmidt and Zisa said, a witness was found and was about to be questioned.