1.  As each year passes, (ital)the projected trust-fund exhaustion dates are creeping closer.(end ital)

2.  Economists estimate, for example, that a year must pass before interest rate cuts work their way fully into the economy.

3.  During my youth when years passed slower, I wasted thousands of hours in drugstores, reading hardcover books I couldn't afford to buy.

4.  Enough years have passed.

5.  Even though Velcro was invented in 1948, many years passed before it became a factor in my life.

6.  Finally, take the long view _ years may pass before your tiny company hits it big _ and, most important, remember to diversify.

7.  Fitch would settle for Drexler believing, as his critics charged before the season, that his best years have passed.

8.  For comparison: since the 1896 premiere of "La Boheme," hardly a year has passed when the opera was not presented in New York.

9.  Fifteen wistful years have passed since we talked for the last time.

10.  Finally, as years pass, later generations may try to recreate the event.