cottage industry

Something of a cottage industry is emerging to try to answer this latest and most sober of international mysteries.

More than just a re-sculpted face, a pretty midriff, and a Bob Mackie dress, Cher has also become a one-woman cottage industry.

X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY was once something of a cottage industry and required access to the x-ray beam line of a synchrotron .

Predicting disaster in the Arab world has become something of a cottage industry.

The mining has for decades been a cottage industry as farmers have learnt how to leach the elements out of the clay in their back yards.

Hedge fund administration is part of a burgeoning cottage industry that attempts to make funds more transparent to investors.

Analysing social media used to be a cottage industry.

A cottage industry has sprung up to produce patents of suspect value .

Porcelain and pottery making as a cottage industry is scattered all over China.

A cottage industry has grown up with groups of circle-makers ready - for a price - to reproduce just about anything.

Speeches, seminars and scholarly articles by nervous Germans and Germany-watchers are a booming cottage industry.

The industrial sector is technologically backward, with most production of the cottage industry type.

From a motley collection of enthusiastic racers and specialist designers, a cottage industry has arisen that is unrivalled around the globe.

A veritable cottage industry of comparison-spewing institutions has emerged , this author not excepted .

The technology has become so accessible that it is sparking a cottage industry of small entrepreneurial firms.

The numbers involved in any exodus from the hedge fund alleys of Mayfair would be small because this is essentially a cottage industry.

Industries are well developed at the village and cottage industry levels in most Asian countries where mangroves still abound.

But is there science to back up this idea, which has spawned a cottage industry of books, CDs and videos?

Traditionally, American medicine has been largely a cottage industry.

There is a cottage industry dedicated to answering the question: "what would Warren do? "

They're calling it Carbox, and it's inspired a green streak in corporate culture--and spawned a cottage industry to deal with the problem.

With Apple having sold 50 million iPhones, it was perhaps inevitable that a cottage industry of iPhone repair shops would spring up.

It was, in part, a cottage industry.

Yet, this is no cottage industry.

Second Thought of Modern Chinese Rural Cottage Industry