1. No more whistle-stop tours of the newest shopping centre in Nuneaton to look forward to.

2. In twenty-four hours she has been on a whistle-stop tour of three countries.

3. Such a whistlestop tour does not remotely qualify me to prognosticate on China's grander questions.

4. The ceremony rounded off Obama's whistlestop trip around the Middle East and Europe.

5. Willie Hague must have passed us on that peculiar whistlestop tour of Republican strongholds he made several months ago.