—May I speak to your manager Mr.Williams at five o’clock tonight?—I’m sorry. Mr. Williams ________ to a conference long before then.
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.