Joyce Shulman, a co-founder of Mangia Media, which sells advertising on pizza boxes, said that the largest companies were generally unwilling to give up their coveted white space.

Woe to the newcomer who disrupts the established order, because some members fight for a coveted space.

Even groups committed to environmental issues support the use of artificial turf, at least in a city where coveted recreational space was once covered by substances less friendly to nature.

A dispiriting number of college administrators, unclear on the need for radio stations at all, are selling their coveted space on the AM-FM dial.

A patio, even on street level, is a coveted space in the city.

Two of the most coveted spaces in the Parisian museum world are being given over to a 61-year-old English artist whom few people have known quite what to make of.

The program has been criticized by some residents and small-business owners who say officials are cavalierly handing out coveted spaces to private companies in a city where street parking is scarce.

And, no, coveted spaces in its preschool were not on offer.

Maria V. Martinez, 50, left a coveted space in a public housing project three years ago and moved to the village after her 25-year-old son was killed by a stray bullet.

This was a lottery to win one of 50 coveted spaces in the free intensive English classes offered at the Manhattan church.