(1) Several business commentators highlighted the importance of television in fueling the craze for space toys and apparel.

(2) While thousands rush to revamp interiors in the ongoing craze for home improvement programmes, more than 2.5 million homes in the UK need substantial repairs.

(3) Japanese arts and crafts exercised such a hold over European and American imaginations that in the late 19th century there was a craze for everything from fans to porcelain.

(4) Instead, huge stages were erected in public places to cater to the local craze for music, particularly dangdut, a local musical genre mixing Arabic and Indian influences.

(5) They will cause the plastic to craze with minute cracks.

(6) In addition, Roma found that Makrolon will craze , but the cracks won't propagate all the way through the material.

(7) Towards Christmas, expect to see knits which have taken the fashion craze for extravagance the whole way - and why not?

(8) The grading system may put an end to the craze for ranks, but it will open a bee-hive of new problems.

(9) Come to think of it, videocassette tapes never really became very popular, though there was quite a craze for them soon after they were introduced in the market.

(10) Tap the shells with the back of a spoon to craze them, then peel.

(11) A craze for wacky weddings has grown since marriage laws were widened to include a vast range of potential venues.

(12) Thereafter England also enthusiastically embraced the craze for Egyptian antiquities.

(13) The craze for watching football matches triggers a paranoid outburst.

(14) I think when the craze for Indian classical music started in the 60s it was a lot more superficial thing than it is now.

(15) The new craze for step aerobics

(16) The salon organizers have made prints a special highlight of this year's event, hoping to start a craze for print collecting in China.

(17) The latest craze for bungee jumping

(18) Internal stresses often caused the glue to craze

(19) When Coco Chanel started the craze for suntans in the 1920s, only those who could afford to head for warmer shores were able to indulge in the new fashion.

(20) So perhaps the craze for entering beauty contests is based on some hard-nosed assumptions.