1.   It would have been a good excuse to use to get Mr Parnham off his back.

2.   She had been casting around for a good excuse to go to New York.

3.   Never have I had such a good excuse for wallowing in deep warm baths.

4.   His birthday gives us a good excuse for a party.

5.   I think it a good excuse to get away from his family.

6.   It was a good excuse to make her escape...

7.   This was as good an excuse as any.

8.   NORTH-EAST haulage contractor Nigel Shield had good excuse to celebrate recently when he notched up his first victory on an international rally.

9.   An airport furnished a good excuse for a speech on aeronautical history.

10.   And a third Democrat, asking that his name not be revealed, could not be bothered with giving a good excuse.