| 1 | As graduation day drew near, the students were all anxiously preparing for their final exams. | |
| 2 | The present crisis is analogous with the situation immediately before the war. | |
| 3 | Toy sales peaked just before Christmas and are now decreasing. | |
| 4 | And few more so than this 2003 cover on the eve of the invasion of Iraq. | |
| 5 | It was not Christmas Eve then, but it came into his head to play a trick upon the bull. |