In those years, poverty ______, hungry farmers wandered about the countryside.
The employment rate has continued to rise in big cities thanks to the efforts of the local governments to increase________.
If you're buying today's paper from the stand, could you get ________ for me?
At our factory there are a few machines similar to ________ described in this magazine.
The traffic on the main streets has a longer green signal than ________ on the small ones.
What would have happened ________,as far as up to the river bank.