But I can hear the cries already: Why pay for them to take a year off?
But if the firm's clients haven't left already, why would they now?
"If you've made a molecule once already, why do you have to keep on making it?
"I think he's proven in two games already why we made the trade," Scott said.
"What can I tell you that I haven't already?" "Why did he kill himself?" "Why does anybody?
You always were a clever kid, he said, before you were born, too, I guess, with your eyes open already, why not.
If Uzbekistan's poverty was to be pointed out to delegates, a sufficient humiliation already, why hadn't the ADB chosen some of Uzbekistan's more beautiful women to represent it?
If you haven't read The Miracle of Castel di Sangro already, why not try the first chapter here, courtesy of the New York Times.
There's so much fabulous children's literature out there already; why not let kids enjoy it while they can, without hurrying on to the adventures of Sal and Dean?
You might say: "It's all right for him, he's made loads of money already, why wouldn't he retire?" But when you think about it, it is rare even for the rich to call it a day.
It's rumoured that writers on series such as Midsomer Murders have a strict limit on the body count, possibly in order to keep the village populated while clinging to a faint approximation of real life (still, 100 murders already, why does anyone go and live there?), but under the multi-casualty influence of Scandinoir, who knows what might happen.
