The death toll of the quake in New Zealand is _____ 150, but officials say the figure won’t stand because they are still getting information in.

The questionnaire won’t take long, ___________ five to ten minutes.

 Smallpox, a kind of disease, has now died ________.

 Help has already come from them, but the aid is ____ near what we expected.

–It’s too late to go to the football match now; ______,it’s being to rain.