1.   Analysis of secondary schools in the south east revealed a minority were responsible for the majority of all exclusions in the area.

2.   Minorities are in a position of having to defend themselves against that charge.

3.   Since only a small minority was involved in violence, why give so much attention to the riot?

4.   The minority are much more Anglicized Creoles centered in and around the capital city of Freetown.

5.   There have always been a minority of wealthy older people and a majority struggling to survive in poverty.

6.   A minority of officers were prepared to bend the rules.

7.   The decision followed analysis of the national debate on the draft constitution, which showed that a sizeable minority were in favour of such a system.

8.   A minority was in favour of abandoning Killion and going home, but the others were persuaded by Rogers.

9.   It is well known that only a minority of alcoholics are afflicted with clinical pancreatitis and the issue of individual susceptibility to alcoholic pancreatitis has recently been reviewed.

10.   At either extreme there were committed minorities of Jacobites and pro-Hanoverians, with a majority in the middle whose attitudes were rather ambivalent.