11.  But a female chief executive remains a rare thing.

12.  But Greenberg, comic and knowing, has done a rare thing supremely well.

13.  But such introspection is a rare thing, and worth the attention of other nations suddenly discovering that their own records are less than pure.

14.  But this is a rare thing.

15.  Compared to the rest of the nation, strikes are still a rare thing in Georgia and the rest of the South.

16.  He moves people without condescension, and that is a rare thing.

17.  He is that rare thing, an uncloying child actor.

18.  His novel, which succeeds as a rare thing, a novel of ideas for adolescents, is less reductive.

19.  I mean, I can do anything, and I owe that to God because to have those kind of abilities is a rare thing.

20.  I read a piece of gardening advice the other day that was most encouraging, which is a rare thing for gardening advice to be.