The momentum caused by the event has now, perhaps, died down, or paused for thought.
Pietersen remains English cricket's biggest, indeed only, mainstream star; the last gasp of something that has now perhaps gone for good.
With money so tight, it has now perhaps become a trade-off: do we want more nurses or better paid ones?
She still believes in "organized care," she said, but "it may be a different model of organized care than we have now," perhaps with more control and leadership by doctors.
When Diego had been transferred to the hotel, the day before, from a prison in the fort, where he had spent a day and a night with other men who had now perhaps been killed, it felt like being exhumed — finding himself in the spacious hotel, with the warmth of these men all around him, ignorant and easily optimistic.
The English-Croatian presenter of football, business and medium-brow lifestyle TV programmes has now written perhaps 2007's most entertaining sports book, We Don't Know What We're Doing (Sphere £12.99, pp311).
So too is the political system that built and guided it: after half a century of almost unbroken power, the Liberal Democratic Party, having lost its purpose, is threatened with annihilation at the polls in the next few months.Ageing population, decrepit politicsPolitical dysfunction has now become perhaps the biggest issue for the economy.
In a gimmick that has now become perhaps just a little too popular, he uses himself as guinea pig, starting out as a "sluggish softy with a weak stomach and a physique-destroying love of chocolate-covered peanuts" and devoting a year to physical optimization.
Publicity about fears that vaccinations cause autism — a theory that has now been discredited — perhaps had the catastrophic consequence of lowering vaccination rates in America.
Since my new watch will, in a fashion, commemorate a year that has now passed on, perhaps the photo I choose should be representative of 2004 or something in it that will no longer be with us.
Perhaps you are eager to know more about Willow the cat, who has now become a major celebrity, perhaps only inches away from her own reality TV show.
