1.   Foreign currency reserves began to drain away to pay for the deficits, and the seeds of the crisis were sown.

2.   Oil prices and sales indicate that reserves have begun to rise again in the past year or so.

3.   Recently, the reserve began playing host to tourists in a floating lodge house along one of the coves that meander off the main-stem Amazon.

4.   Syracuse may not have been as deep as Kansas, but it hung in there, until even the Jayhawk reserves began to sag.

5.   The latter game ended first, and U.S. reserves began a muted celebration on the sideline.

6.   The reserves began to contribute.

7.   The reserves have also begun to be used as grazing areas for domesticated sheep, goats and one-humped camels, or dromedaries.

8.   FIRST foreign-exchange reserves began bleeding out of the country.

9.   It was the smallest monthly increase since foreign reserves began their unbroken rise.