1.  He joins that elite group of Town stalwarts at a time when his future is uncertain.

2.  The landowners have always regarded themselves as an elite group within society.

3.  The radical elite theorists emphasized that popular participation is perfectly feasible, but collusion between elite groups prevents it from being established.

4.  For most of the eighteenth century the trade had been dominated by an elite group of well-organised journeymen.

5.  These mule spinners, assisted by women and children, were an elite group in the early textile mills.

6.  An elite group of Catholic scholars is proposing to form a top-flight academic institute to strengthen the quality of Catholic intellectual life in the United States.

7.  And its customers are an elite group.

8.  Andrews is part of an elite group of sports-medicine specialists.