1.   An exotic hobby among the rich only a year ago, online trading has quickly become a national passion.

2.   As a schoolgirl, the Stockholm-born singer plunged wholeheartedly into choral singing, a Swedish national passion.

3.   A walk or drive in the country, often followed by lunch in a village pub or a visit to a stately home, is a national passion.

4.   Bursts of heartfelt partisan applause marked the opening speeches, rare in the House routine, but a vivid measure of the national passions at work.

5.   But the national passion is balut, unhatched duck embryos boiled and eaten from the shell with a sprinkling of rock salt.

6.   But there is more to automobility, and to our national passion for it, than that.

7.   First, Kosovo is the central pillar of Serbian national passion, the place where the holiest monasteries and monuments stand.

8.   He could not have known that the ball would soon become an object of national passion.

9.   He is the eternal optimist as befits a man who is widely given much of credit for the rise of his sport from occasional diversion to national passion.

10.   It has been said that baseball is the national pastime, but football is the national passion.