Looming after the money-making Christmas season are winter months, when sales always dip.

Christmas, as it always did each year, loomed within a day or two after weeks of being a vague festival ages away.

What must be determined is whether the plan will leave large deficits looming in the years after 2002.

The Shadow was coming up behind him, looming after him, actually picking the spot where he could down his adversary.

A trade war is looming between Europe and America after the collapse of talks in Washington.

Man's Island itself loomed ahead, very green after the poured-stone buildings of the rest of the mainurb.

Then a familiar face loomed out of the melee after all.

And now a four-game Western swing looms after the break.

"Who's to say what insanity looms in my background after all."

The building is a century old: an imposing, blocklong Romanesque stone structure that looms after dark like a castle.