__________ to work overtime that evening, I missed a wonderful film.
— What is 10% of 800,000,000? — It is _____.
He promised _____ back in a few minutes.
Beethoven was not birth deaf. He began to go deaf, _____ he grew older.
Martin was sick with a strange fever; _______, he could neither eat nor sleep.
I was in the _____ position with having completely forgotten her name.