An ordeal like Dorothy's is shocking, but thankfully it is rarer than many believe.
The Scottish wildcat was now much rarer than the black rhino, he said.
It's much rarer than in the general population because these are fit young guys, but you cannot pick up the subtle abnormalities.
Banks have been lenient, and repossessions have been far rarer than feared.
"It is exceedingly rare, and much rarer than many allege, " he added.
Volcanoes that change climate enough to affect agriculture round the world are perhaps 100 times rarer than that, and cataclysmic asteroids rarer still.
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If blockbusters become rarer than they already are, chasing solely after them could be akin to hunting unicorns when there are plenty of deer to shoot.
That's mainly because collectors from Latin America, Russia and the U.S. bid steadily for any paintings that popped with color or sculptures that seemed rarer than the rest.
Sapphires are widely thought to be much rarer than diamonds.
It must be said that successful partnerships are rather rarer than failed ones: business people tend to be alpha types, and money and fame can destroy even the solidest friendships.
First, plane crashes are far rarer than auto crashes.
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Single-parent households are considerably rarer than among Afro-Caribbeans.
The result seems to be that incompetent chief executives in large companies are rarer than they were in 1990 when, says Mr Grundfest, there were somewhere between ten and 20 companies in the Fortune 100 where institutional investors were seriously discontented with the boss.
Paul Cannon knows more than most, he's a British taxonomic mycologist, rarer now than many of the species he studies.
Further, IPOs in the consumer space, while rarer in than in tech because many consumer brands undergo liquidity events earlier in their lifecycle, have also produced strong results.
But in fact, violent crime is far rarer in Japan than elsewhere.
Even if new finds elsewhere have been rarer and less accessible than in the past, vast quantities of oil could now be profitably stripped from tar sands and shale.
Skyscrapers are even rarer: only around 50 blocks of more than 100 metres are being built or in use.
The coalescence of two black holes would create even stronger gravitational waves, but physicists believe that there are fewer black holes than neutron stars, so such events would be rarer.
If a firm is headquartered in a country where trust is prevalent (such as Sweden), it is much more likely to decentralize its decision making than if it is headquartered in a country in which trust is rarer (such as India).
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