Then he had a formal session with them and stayed around some more.

But mostly they seemed to enjoy the casual sharing after the formal session was over.

We shall meet next week for our first formal session.

The formal sessions, running through Wednesday, were to be devoted to the shape of urban policy.

But after the formal session was over, the organizers brought in a case of beer.

They pledged to meet in smaller working groups soon and hold another formal session before the end of June.

No one wanted to concede anything, not even a blink, at the formal sessions.

It is not every day, though, that we assemble in formal session.

The first two weeks of the negotiations were spent in formal sessions.

The scientists examined him in more formal sessions, but it was thought that we might also pick something up.