You can get off the bus one or two stops ________ and walk the rest of the way to work every day so as to take some exercise.

It was ____ loud music that we couldn’t hear ourselves speak.

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

I can’t give you an answer right now. I’d like     more time to consider my decision.

First I read the poem to myself and then ________ to the class.