______ the price of gas is starting to come down, many people are choosing to take the bus or the train instead.
Soon after the quakes, one thousand soldiers were sent out to ______ the miners from the coal mine.
His wife ________him to stop smoking, but he didn’t listen.
The maths teacher told the naughty boys _____ so much noise in class.
A number of books in the library ____ been stolen so that the number of them ____ smaller than before.
Many of them ignored his advice, _______ they knew it to be very useful.