1.  Naturally my friend considered this a lot of malarky, but he was impressed that the previously clean-shaven George now sported a five-day growth of beard.

2.  Ali said he and his friends briefly considered remaining in Italy and seeking political asylum.

3.  By the time he became a national celebrity through basketball, he wanted at least his friends to consider him an ordinary guy and not concentrate on his height.

4.  Friends consider Kim a genius, saying to the last that he was capable of rescuing the sprawling conglomerate, which also has steel and construction interests.

5.  Friends considered that a tragedy.

6.  My flamboyant friends consider red leather a neutral.

7.  Other friends would never consider assembling or operating a new gadget without first reading the entire instruction manual and following the directions step by step.

8.  San Francisco vocational counselor Betty Kohlenberg suggests that your friend consider temporary or volunteer work that uses her skills while she searches for a permanent position.

9.  She said she and her friends in high school considered themselves Valley Girls, even though they lived in Alhambra, eight miles east of downtown.