** Thus began what surely must be recorded as the most salubrious year abroad since Flaubert left for Egypt.
Tiger Woods, five shots off the lead when the day began, could surely smell an opportunity when Scott started the day with a bogey, a birdie and then another bogey.
Courts, which are rarely competent to regulate technology to begin with, surely cannot do it on a schedule entirely divorced from the pace of technical development.
My vacation was about to begin and surely in two weeks the efficient folks at 1-800-333-TOLL could process my new credit card number, called in that very day, and ship me a substitute transponder.
Many Turkish officers who were opposed to the ceasefire to begin with surely feel that they are being used as political pawns by Erdoğan, who is now asking them to give their lives fighting the PKK.
In the latter half of the 90s, the style zeitgeist began slowly but surely to swing towards glamour and gowns.
The country of my birth was also my nickname — "Pass it, Peru!" — which surely began as bullying but eventually became a source of pride.
There is no single reason for the turnaround, although it surely began with tougher defense, more deliberate offense, a tighter rotation and perhaps the law of averages.
And thus, painfully conscious of Hilbert, the superior mathematician, on his heels, Einstein began what Isaacson, surely rightly, calls "the most concentrated frenzies of scientific creativity in history".
And Shaw writes that after the commercial demand for decoys ended -- a market gunner might use 200 or more decoys in his rig -- decoy makers slowly but surely began to concentrate on form rather than function.
Legislation against harassment slowly but surely began to pass.
