As much as would fill the big spoon one time.

This time of year the rains in the mountains fill it to the banks.

The odds against him were high, and several times during the months after the first two surgeries, his lungs filled with fluid.

The third time a great wave filled it and stove the bottom.

"Every time a theater or a performing arts center opens up, it fills a void," he said.

A time filled with naught but the faint sound of his brother's breathing.

And for the first time her eyes filled with tears.

But this time, after reasoned consideration of the matter that filled his mind.

"Three times, and we fill the tank," Marty pointed out.

A long time ago that he proposed to her in a room filled with strangers.