He hopes to return control to the city, perhaps even before the takeover expires in 2012.
The Supreme Court is about to rule on that case -- and, some say, overturn Sotomayor's thinking -- perhaps even before her confirmation hearings.
She suggested that children born through donated sperm might be told in simple terms as soon as they could broadly understand the concept, perhaps even before school-age.
James Naismith might have been the first person, perhaps even before nailing up a peach basket, to say that a tight defense can lead to a free-flowing offense.
Yet much of this relief is based on a single expectation: that the Fed will cut interest rates soon, perhaps even before its next rate-setting meeting on September 18th.
The bond markets expect Mr Greenspan to read recent inflation data, unexpectedly high, as a statistical blip, and to cut interest rates by at least a quarter-point, perhaps even before the next scheduled Fed meeting on March 20th.
So there is more hope than before that perhaps even this previous big worry will be taken care of.
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America is taking a harder line than most of its partners, Britain included, in seeking to weaken the insurgency, perhaps even inducing some rebel commanders to defect, before considering talks with the Taliban leadership.
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If this "sungrazing" comet survives intact, it should emerge from the near-miss even brighter than before, and could be lighting up our skies through January 2014 - perhaps even in broad daylight.
Only a matter of time before Twitter starts hosting pictures and perhaps even videos.
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He had previously served as a state senator in Illinois and then ran two years ago and won a seat to the United States Senate and was elected and would not even serve out one full term in the United States Senate before perhaps running for the highest office in the land.
But it matters even more to people on the ground, eager, perhaps desperate to make their case before the authorities, their boss or their family.
So some of the capacity we lost in the recession - in the financial sector, perhaps - we may never need again, and some of the companies hiring workers now did not even exist before the crash.
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