1.   A persistent critic of profligate government, he now has his chance to trim the deficit.

2.   Accordingly, what small patches of old growth we have now remaining are all that we will ever have.

3.   After spending years piecing together fragments, we now have the whole original manuscript.

4.   And if what Cadfael suspected was indeed true, he had now good reason to be on his best behaviour.

5.   And now I have a good job, one I like.

6.   And now I have a very pleasant duty to perform.

7.   And now they had the immense task of reclaiming all this land and rebuilding all their homes.

8.   And now we have the unlikely and not altogether pretty sight of Bob Dole tearing up in public like a road-company Pagliacci.

9.   Anything would be preferable to the system we have now.