"The Bosnian Government has given them a fine excuse."

It might, in fact, be a fine excuse to leave government service.

It was a fine excuse to get them together again.

The discussion proved a fine excuse, if any were needed, to feature a Shakespeare sonnet this week.

It's a fine excuse to tear the whole lot down, and build again.

And this hawking party would provide a particularly fine excuse for it.

You don't for a moment think we'd pass up such a fine excuse to have at least a little celebration, do you?

If nothing else, it would provide him with a fine excuse to see her, pass the time of day.

"A fine excuse for a lazy layabout who doesn't want to work more than he has to!"

"And that will provide you with a fine excuse to run off hunting elephants."