• After all, a plane is one of the few places where picky eaters are well catered for.

    BBC: Airline food: On the up?

  • Sydney is one of the few places in Asia where a bank can set up without expatriates.

    ECONOMIST: Australian financial markets

  • The train is one of the few places where you can participate in a truly local ritual, and distinctions between Indian and foreigner fade.

    BBC: Riding the rails like a Mumbaiker

  • Southern Kafue is also one of the few places in the word to spy the colourful black-cheeked lovebird, also listed as vulnerable.

    BBC: Birding in Zambia��s wild

  • The Philippines is one of the few places in the world - alongside the Vatican and Malta - where divorce is still prohibited.

    BBC: Philippines eyes easier marriage annulment

  • Second, the South is one of the few places in America where Mr Bush's connections with the religious right may not hurt him with moderate Republicans.

    ECONOMIST: The battle for the South

  • "Passive smoking is entirely avoidable and a private vehicle is one of the few places a child can still be legally exposed to tobacco smoke, " he said.

    BBC: Cigarettes displayed in cabinet

  • The region, home to just over one million people, is one of the few places in the world to have first-hand experience of minimum pricing for alcohol.

    BBC: The battle over alcohol pricing

  • Second, Germany relies on exports, not spending at home: the home market is one of the few places where sales of Mercedes cars have fallen this year.

    ECONOMIST: The world economy

  • Diversity has always been a mixed blessing of the reality genre, which is one of the few places that network television invites working-class people to appear as themselves.

    NEWYORKER: My Strange Addiction

  • In 2009, Ontario was one of the few places in the world (aside from Finland) where 15-year-olds scored very high on international tests regardless of their socioeconomic background.

    WSJ: Training Teachers to Embrace Reform

  • There are fears that public spending cuts in Spain will affect the teaching of silbo at schools, one of the few places nowadays where children learn to whistle.

    BBC: Silbo gomero: A whistling language revived

  • In 1990 just freed Nelson Mandela and his African National Congress met there, believing the winery to be one of the few places they could be safe from electronic eavesdropping.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • But the city's Abertay University, one of the few places in the UK you can take courses on video games design and development, is still churning out graduates keen to make their mark in the sector.

    BBC: Video games industry: Rise of the 'bedroom' developer

  • The North Cape is known as one of the few places in Norway where you can experience the midnight sun, a natural phenomena of 24 hours of sunlight occurring only in summer in certain spots above the Arctic Circle.

    FORBES: An Arctic River Cruise Should Be Your Next Adventure

  • It is thought that Research in Motion, the makers of the "BB" phone as it is known here, has more than 50% of the Indonesian market - one of the few places in the world where Blackberry is still king.

    BBC: Blackberry BBM Money app to launch in Indonesia

  • Half of the city's residents allegedly are obese or overweight a stat seemingly belied by the ladies who lunch and the impression on the subway that New York remains one of the few places in America where people have not ballooned to supersize.

    WSJ: Jenkins: The 5th Avenue to Serfdom

  • Mr. Tsarnaev said his son had at least once visited the mosque on Kotrova Street in Makhachkala, known for being one of the few places in Russia that openly preaches Salafism, a puritanical strain of Islam centered in Saudi Arabia that has risen in popularity in Dagestan.

    WSJ: Boston Suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev's Dagestan Visit Scrutinized

  • It is also one of the few reliable places open on Monday in Lapa.

    BBC: Searching for the perfect samba beat

  • "Carnegie Mellon is one of the very few places that can both test for face blindness and perform the brain imaging in our state-of-the-art imaging center, " Behrmann said in a press release.

    CNN: Does Brad Pitt suffer from face blindness?

  • It is also one of the very few places that could plausibly field a successor to the venerable M113 troop carrier, which the Military Channel recently designated as the most important infantry vehicle in history.

    FORBES: Threatened Site Sustains Most Of U.S. Combat Vehicle Industry

  • The message is something that is sorely needed in Butte, he said, one of a few places in the country where people can drink in public.

    CNN: Grieving father offers teens money not to drink

  • In fact, the hotel is one of the few high-end places where visitors can stay along Barcelona's harbor, which isn't easily seen from elsewhere in the city.

    FORBES: Overview

  • This combination of cash-spending customers and well-endowed investors explains why in many places, the immigrant market remains one of the few still aggressively expanding.

    FORBES: In Ethnic Enclaves, The U.S. Economy Thrives

  • Over a few short decades Hong Kong was transformed from one of the world's poorest places into one of its richest, as it remains (see chart 3).

    ECONOMIST: Hong Kong's economy

  • But whereas a few years ago it could have been true that a Lagos road would have been one of the worst places in the world to find yourself, now there is little chance that you will be stationary, unless there is a broken down lorry, or the presidential convoy makes a visit from the capital city, Abuja.

    BBC: Beijing traffic jam

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