---How much salt did you put in the soup? ---I’m sorry to say, _____. I forgot.
With a lot of difficulties _______, they went to the seashore and had a good rest.
The number of people present at the meeting _______ two hundred and a number of them _______ from the countryside.
Giving up smoking is a slow and painful _______ for him.
Busy _______ he was, he managed to spare some time to help plan the project.
The maths teacher demanded that all the students _______ the examination paper within one and a half hours.