Partial answers began to emerge, largely from American sources, in December.
Officials and business executives at an investment conference in Muscat last week offered some partial answers.
Fittingly, the dialogue in "The Starry Messenger" is made up of many questions and only partial answers.
The prime minister and his office have now offered three partial answers about the fund set up by his father Ian, which avoided ever paying tax in Britain.
Partial answers to that question come now in the form of a preliminary Pentagon planning document described in The Times yesterday by Eric Schmitt.
Many of the designs on display provide partial answers to that question, which will be asked many more times in this election year.
Over the past year and a half the Iranians have repeatedly made declarations that they would answer outstanding questions within a week, but each of those deadlines has passed with only partial answers offered.
From his partial answers to questions about the recent war, intelligence officials said they came to believe that Mr. Hussein was surprised when the United States began its invasion in March 2003.
Why was my son alive two days ago and not today?" The authorities in Prince George's County, Md., in the suburbs of Washington, could provide only preliminary and partial answers and said their investigation was continuing.
Ross Anderson, professor of security engineering at Cambridge University, has used the Freedom of Information Act to try to force the MHRA to reveal how it plans to keep patient data secure, but received only partial answers.
The prime minister and his office gave three partial answers about the fund on Tuesday but crucially failed to say whether Cameron and his family would gain in the future from Blairmore, an investment fund.
