41.  Under some circumstances, they surmised, the false vacuum might collapse from its present energy state to a lower one.

42.  While the plant throws out new stems, the lower ones keep growing.

43.  But prosecutors amended the ISA charge to a lower one under the Firearms Act, which allows for imprisonment of up to seven years and a fine.

44.  Overnight, Odyssey will be commanded to drop from high orbit to a lower one.

45.  Senate passage had been widely expected because Berlusconi has much less support in the upper chamber than in the lower one.

46.  The big scores, however, are beginning to outnumber the lower ones, as they did with Kent in England last year.