Our dirt track went straight on, but a rare stretch of tarmac to our left was too tempting.

The incidents shattered a rare two-day stretch of relative quiet in which no soldiers had died.

Becker fought off three break points in the eighth game, hitting two aces during one of the rare stretches when his first serve was working.

Civilisation ends at Chilling, a small village on a rare stretch of cultivatable land above the river.

They walked together momentarily across a rare stretch of earth where the swamp was still held more than an arm's length at bay.

Most of the D8 is still a two-lane road, excepting rare four-lane stretches.

They'd come here to view what might be foundations carved into bare rock, not to hack through the continent's rare stretches of vegetation.

Yet that was a rare stretch of flashiness.

With this combination, Kansas State found a rare sustained stretch of success on the football field.

A rare stretch of clear weather, about to end, presents an opportunity to complete the operation before the Luftwaffe can mount an impenetrable defense.