She sensed, beneath his words, as they spoke of many things in the hours between dusk and bedtime, that he had been as lonely as she in his own way.

"I have spoke in the last 24 hours with the head of the E.P.A. and the director for the Center for Disease Control," he said.

You haven't spoken to me in the last three hours, and when you do it's to tell me how you spend the day with your new mistress.

Those words were spoken in the exhilarating moments after Game 5, in the exciting hours before Game 6.

Keats later spoke to Alex Drake at the police station in the early hours of the working day.

When Officer Robinson began to speak in the early hours yesterday, his friends said his first words were, "Did they get the bad guys?"

I have spoken to him in the last 24 hours.

She had not spoken to him, not one word, in all the hours the carriage had been moving steadily through the night, taking them to a brief honeymoon at the Pyneham country estate.

Parents with children in Israel spoke of radical mood swings in the first 24 hours of the war.

The three central players in the Eurozone drama have all spoken publicly in the last 24 hours.