41.  So parents should telephone but try to avoid filling the time with trivialities or cavernous amounts of dead air.

42.  Some of the most prodigiously dim people I know are on the tube, filling air time with blab.

43.  Such talk fills the time between games.

44.  Talk like that comes from filling time, which you do in television when you run out of things to say, when your video images have faded.

45.  That snafu had TV networks scrambling to fill time and angry coaches tearing their hair out.

46.  Television will even put a pig race on the screen to fill time.

47.  The Anasazi filled their time with building and trading.

48.  The game exists to fill time between the commercials.

49.  The new film, lacking incident, fills the time with a lot of state-of-the-art computer wizardry.

50.  The X Games are a blatantly created-for-TV pseudo-event designed to fill network time during one of the slowest periods of the year.