The remains, rare in their diversity and superb state of preservation, hold clues to the region's climate 220,000 years ago.

Triana considered the slave dispassionately-a rare state of mind for her.

This rare state, known as polydactyly, is caused by a dominant gene.

Nri was a rare African state as it never dealt in the trade of slaves.

Her mother was in a rare old state.

San Francisco also is in a rare state emotionally.

E were in a rare state, the prisoner, I mean.

She appears to be in a rare state of heightened dudgeon.

'Your father's in a rare old state,' she said.

He is happy - in his case, a mental state so rare as to be almost unprecedented.