21.   It said Australia is struggling to keep up with world standards in key infrastructure areas and is lagging in others.

22.   Lending rates, though, remain extremely high by world standards.

23.   Once a part of Bohemia, this is where Saaz hops are cultivated, the signature hops of such world standards as Pilsner Urquell and Budweis Budvar.

24.   Particularly in the United States, where gas prices are low by world standards, consumers have not been willing to pay extra for fuel economy.

25.   Philips Electronics NV ditched efforts to set a world standard and followed mainstream competitors with its decision to switch technology for its flat panel displays.

26.   Prison sentences are shorter than in America, for instance, and the prison population is minute by world standards.

27.   Russia, increasingly desperate for hard currency and with little other industries that meet world standards, has already sold Tehran millions of dollars worth of weaponry.

28.   Six hundred thousand residents per district is an absurdly high number by world standards.

29.   The agency said that before the cuts, the number of cars produced annually on a per-worker basis was less than two, far below world standards.

30.   The government argues that these steps have upgraded the plant to world standards.