His company is dangling by a thread. That's the rumor I hear.

Two whole pages of the newspaper were devoted to the news of the royal divorce.

The Commerce Department reports retail sales rose seven-tenths of 1 percent last month mainly thanks to strong auto sales.

Our success was, in the main, due to his efforts.

My success was largely due to luck.

The factory is keyed to produce men's wear.

Forks were used for many years in Europe and the Near East, but only for cooking.

The privilege is reserved exclusively for woman.

For a healthy cheerful guy like that to get sick is like the devil getting sunstroke. Everyone is talking about it.

Rows of houses, each of them different and pleasing with their spacious gardens, are replaced by purely functional blocks of flats which have nothing more to commend them than over-praised 'modern conveniences'.