To me it seemed like the lull before the storm.

And this also, he knew, was the lull before the storm.

In the lull before the storm, by their faces we will know them.

He knew this would represent the lull before the storm for the diplomats.

"I have the strange feeling it is the lull before the storm.

"Maybe this is a little lull before the storm," Valentine said hopefully.

Then came the lull before the storm.

Mr President, we find ourselves in a phase of the budget which resembles the lull before the storm.

This was the lull before the storm, the girding of loins before the conflict.

There was a feeling that something was in the air, that it was the lull before the storm.

As the old saying goes, it's the lull before the storm, the present the lull, the future the storm.

I feel it, too, the lull before the storm, a disquiet, an ominous mental depression, an uneasiness of psyche.

French cooperation in the EEC in the years immediately after 1958 could perhaps best be described as the lull before the storm.

Indeed, her greatest fear was that this relative quiet represented the lull before the storm while the Andies finished deploying their assets.

For a short while, it almost seemed as if things were normal; looking back, I now realize it was simply a lull before the storm broke full force.

Lull Before the Storm at Airports For business travelers, the plan to screen all checked bags will require some adjustments.

"It's the lull before the storm," says Arron, the English barman at Mulligan's pub.

Unfortunately, there was a decided air of the lull before the storm about it, and Alistair's question underscored that sense of tense anticipation altogether too well.

Lula Ford, the principal of the Beethoven elementary school on the edge of Robert Taylor, said the peace was "the lull before the storm."

Mr. Elliott settled back in the Crown Victoria with the newspapers "This is the part I like best, the lull before the storm," he said.

"It's more like the lull before the storm," said William H. Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution.

Post-Cold-War Course At the United Nations yesterday, security forces heavily outnumbered the demonstrators, but one diplomat described the mood as "the lull before the storm."

So make haste to greet your father, 'Deric, for this is but the lull before the storm, and by this time tomorrow we may be fighting for our lives!

Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, after offering his support for Judge Sessions's nomination, said today's hearings were "the lull before the storm."

Asoo Billa became a sizeable box office smash in the first half of 2001 running to packed houses all over the country in the pre-Osama lull before the storm.

To me it seemed like the lull before the storm.

And this also, he knew, was the lull before the storm.

In the lull before the storm, by their faces we will know them.

I have the strange feeling it is the lull before the storm.

Is this the lull before the storm or did values "bottom out" last year?

Perhaps it's the lull before the storm because the weather is the wild card.

I suspect we are experiencing the lull before the storm — and long may it continue.

He knew this would represent the lull before the storm for the diplomats.

I guess I'm in the lull before the storm.

This may well be the lull before the storm. '

The lull before the storm has been proved right.

"The lull before the storm, I suppose," she said brightly.

Comment: Whilst car benefits remain the same, this is just the lull before the storm.

A small, easy-sloping pitch leads to easier ice which is only the lull before the storm.

"This is really the lull before the storm, whether it's a political storm or more than that.

Mr President, we find ourselves in a phase of the budget which resembles the lull before the storm.

We've got the lull before the storm.

The hush was prophetic of action; it was the lull before the storm.

Again, the initial 100kms represent the lull before the storm with a gradual drag up to 200m from sea-level.

This was the lull before the storm, the girding of loins before the conflict.

As the old saying goes, it's the lull before the storm, the present the lull, the future the storm.

There was a feeling that something was in the air, that it was the lull before the storm.

I feel it, too, the lull before the storm, a disquiet, an ominous mental depression, an uneasiness of psyche.

Indeed, her greatest fear was that this relative quiet represented the lull before the storm while the Andies finished deploying their assets.

French cooperation in the EEC in the years immediately after 1958 could perhaps best be described as the lull before the storm.