（ ） my delight, our school football team won the game easily.

However much （ ）, it will be worth the money.

Our main concern is to _____ the living standard of the people.

Greatly agitated, I rushed to the apartment and tried the door, （ ） to find it locked.

_____ the flood， the ship would have reached the destination on time.

Some cities have passed laws that allow coal and oil_____only if their sulfur content is low.

Ten minutes _____ an hour when one is expecting a phone call.

—Do you know （ ） they got to know each other? —It was last year （ ）they both taught Chinese in Scotland.

One of my brother’s many faults is that he never（ ） anything very long.

It was once a difficult time, but in the end everything _____ all right.

She finally decided to obtain a _____ from the bank in order to buy a house.

The whole class couldn’t help _____ when they saw the haircut of their new classmate.