1.   We were still several miles off, but you could already see a glow in the sky from the lights of the city.

2.   There are still several million ethnic Germans in Russia.

3.   There are still several different types of higher degree designations within the UK.

4.   Although the Chechen forces have been repeatedly battered, there are still several thousand left who apparently are quite willing to die for their cause.

5.   And while initital clinical trials are still several years away, Greenstein said she understands the need for public debate as well as business confidentiality.

6.   And while MicroChips is still several years away from testing, using semiconductor chips for medical testing outside the body is already an emerging industry known as DNA arrays.

7.   Architecture is still several generations ahead of the other design fields in deploying glamour at the national level, but it may not be profiting from that distinction.

8.   Aserkoff believes the prospects for convergence rallies are out there, but are still several years off.

9.   But experts say true speech recognition is still several years away.

10.   But Ms. Mitchell recently acknowledged the city was still several months away from deciding on, much less revealing, a plan.