---How is your plan getting along?----I can’t carry on _____ any longer. Someone must help me.

_____ to the delight of the schoolchildren, they will have a longer winter holiday which falls a week earlier than they have expected.

Jack had to call a taxi because the box was _______ heavy to carry all the way home.

Can you believe that in _____ a rich country there should be _____ many poor people?

Most of the evidence was destroyed in the fire. ______, it would be almost impossible to prove Jim guilty.