1.   Bit rare though, if you get them.

2.   Carter also met with Cuban religious leaders Thursday afternoon, after taking a rare bit of personal time earlier in the day to go bird-watching.

3.   However precarious, the revival provides a rare bit of good news from Asia.

4.   In a rare bit of agreement, both the militants and the military agreed that people should not attend.

5.   In a rare bit of bipartisan job-filling, President Clinton two weeks ago nominated Weld, a Republican, to become ambassador to Mexico.

6.   In a rare bit of good news for Macau, incidents of gang-related violence have subsided since Wan was arrested.

7.   In short, these two safety nets offer a rare bit of consolation that however bad things are, they could be much worse.

8.   Somewhere in a tent in Tunisia, Bedouins were laughing at a rare bit of comic relief from the long, punishing, old-fashioned night.

9.   The clean bill of health is a rare bit of hopeful economic news in a country convulsed by civil conflict, and the timing could hardly be more opportune.

10.   The film ends on a note of ambiguity, tempered with a rare bit of hope.