1.   Before landing in Algiers, we circled the airport several times.

2.   The plane circled the airport several times before landing.

3.   And the doomed plane had been forced to return to airports seven times in the last two years for safety problems.

4.   At the airport each time, however, they were told that such seats were not identifiable and thus could not be assigned.

5.   The SEC notified Denver last month it planned to seek administrative action for inadequate disclosure of problems that delayed the opening of the airport four times.

6.   Dostum has bombed the airport several times in recent weeks, hitting the control tower but leaving the runways intact.

7.   After taking off in her silver biplane in perfect weather, Finch buzzed over the airport three times to bid her farewell to the crowd below.

8.   Last summer the Bosnian Serbs shelled the Dubrovnik airport several times.

9.   Northern forces besieging the southern stronghold of Aden for three weeks have targeted the airport several times to stop southern warplanes from taking off there.