They are a mixed lot, this minority, ranging from start-up companies like Cypress to giants like Xerox and 3M.

Potential buyers are a diverse lot, ranging from well-to-do, adventurous hobbyists to shipwreck salvagers to underwater filmmakers.

Nicholas Serota, the director, said he had been getting a lot of American gifts, ranging from $750,000 to $2 million.

The Bowling club maintains a Bowling Green The village has a lot of sports and social clubs, ranging from Cricket to Horticulture.

That's a lot of misuse, ranging from habitual revving hard after cold starts, to hours of idling.

But they are an assorted lot, ranging from gray, downtrodden drabs to superconsumers forever having their legs waxed, indoctrinating their daughters with their twisted values.

They were an interesting lot, ranging in age from thirty to fifty, and it was useful to swap experiences with other major programme managers, even ones working in different fields to me.

The stories were a varied lot, ranging from vignette to novelet length and from hard science fiction to fantasy and mainstream.

But the schools that can enroll foreigners are a mixed lot, ranging from major universities to small language institutes, flight schools and beauty colleges.

"There is still a lot of time being devoted to victimless crimes, ranging from people selling goods without a license to prostitution," he said.