By using 'because' continuously three times, can you make an English statement ?

It is always ahead of me yet I can never see it. What is it?

If there are fifteen crows on a fence and the farmer shoots a third of them, how many crows are left?

Can anyone tell me a word in the English dictionary which has a silent 'z'?

What two things can you never eat for breakfast?

If nine thousand, nine hundred nine dollars is written as $9,909,
how should twelve thousand, twelve hundred twelve dollars be written?

What goes up but never comes down?

I am the black child of a white father, a wingless bird, flying even to the clouds of heaven. I give birth to tears of mourning in pupils that meet me, even though there is no cause for grief, and at once on my birth, I am dissolved into air. What am I?

What can you catch but never throw?

I am not alive, but I grow; I don't have lungs, but I need air; I don't have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?