21.   The growing taste for cider is not just an American phenomenon.

22.   The gathering of family and friends that connects people whose lives are lived in different ways and places is a very special American phenomenon.

23.   The league is surely an American cultural phenomenon, but it is also becoming more diversified.

24.   The merlot vogue is mostly an American phenomenon.

25.   The museum has been receiving more than usual interest in recent years, for Abilene has become a focus for a new American phenomenon.

26.   The stock-financed biotechnology start-up is still largely an American phenomenon.

27.   The signs also appear to be a distinctively American phenomenon.

28.   The triumph of the center is not an unusual American political phenomenon, to be sure.

29.   The tasting room is a peculiarly American phenomenon.

30.   This is hardly an American phenomenon.