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With number Four gone, the two are back to square one again.

To some people, it would seem the workers are back to square one.

Otherwise, in a short while we'll be back to square one.

"Then the administration changed, and we were back to square one," he says.

So, I feel we are back to square one again, unfortunately.

Failing that, we will soon be back to square one.

As a result the unit owners were back to square one.

If something didn't break, and soon, they would be back to square one.

"But if that were the case we'd be back to square one.

It wasn't so much a matter of being back to square one.

The two break up, and Bryce is back to square one.

But then, they were back to square one with regard to the bacteria.

Four years after the management committee took control of the team, the Islanders are back to square one.

And you and your father would be back to square one.

She had been trying so hard, and now she was back to square one.

As far as being back to square one, you've still got me.

It was back to square one: telly 24 hours a day.

You could draft older players and four years later be back to square one."

Investors will be back to square one, where they were before the settlement buzz began.

"We could be back to square one in a day or so, but it adds to our caution anyway."

She felt she was back to square one, looking for the connection.

Because after so many years of trying to dispel the running jokes, they are back to square one.

The trip did not accomplish anything, and we are back to square one."

So, as ever, it is back to square one.

The bailout will begin to fall apart and we'll be back to square one- default.

If they are approved, we shall be back at square one.

Then the couple who owned the house decided to withdraw it from the market, and we were back at square one.

Now he was back at square one, and he had a bad feeling that time might be running out on him.

Now it seemed she was back at square one, facing long, dark hours in the frustrating pursuit of sleep.

One year later, we are back at square one.

Julie sighed; they were back at square one again.

The Assembly was back at square one.

He is back at square one, and has put more energy into pursuing the fantasy of an obsession rather than any prospect of real love.

Open conflict with the Albanians would be likely to follow, and we would be back at square one.

We'd be back at square one.

The case against Pacheco had disintegrated, and they were back at square one, hunting for a nameless killer.

By 1960, now back in England, Shubik's career was back at square one.

Summer is devastated when Andrew tells her Natasha is pregnant and she believes they are back at square one.

She is back at square one, and at the age of 38, that's no joke in the town called Hollywood - or anyplace else, for that matter.

He mentally crossed his fingers that Santoro had taken the bait, or he was back at square one with no other solid leads.

You say, 'At some point I will reach it,' but then anything will explode everything else, and you are back at square one."

"We don't want to do the deal, spend 18 month waiting for approval only to be blocked, and then be back at square one again," the executive said.

'If you grovel, you'll be back at square one,' Adrian had said I knew for sure I wasn't going to grovel.

Chris Walker, manager of new business development at Pioneer Electronics, explained that once you have reached the changer's storage capacity, you are back at square one.

Chris Chandler, the disgruntled Indianapolis quarterback, was back at square one yesterday after the Colts announced the failure of a deal to trade him to Tampa Bay.

She had a couple of names, a couple of numbers, but all it took was being put on indeterminate hold a couple of times and she was back at square one.

On May 25, 2005, the committee overseeing the process announced that none of the four rehab proposals met the city's stated financial criteria and thus the project was back at square one once again.

"It seems to me they are back at square one," said Peter Bergen, a terrorism expert and author of "Holy War, Inc.," on the rise of Al Qaeda.

"At this point, we are going to be back at square one if Terry Oleson is not the person," said Francine Lentes, a sister of Ms. Breidor.

After the appeals court cleared Knox and Sollecito in October 2011, the family held a press conference in which they said they accepted the court's decision, though her brother, Lyle, said it felt as though they were back at square one.