1.   For men the older age groups also contain the highest proportions of ex-regular smokers.

2.   The highest proportion of cholesterol is found in egg yolk, offal, shellfish, red meat, butter and cream.

3.   In terms of regional differences, East Anglia reported the highest proportion of companies that had raised RandD spending, and the southwest of England the lowest.

4.   The region also boasted the highest proportion of births outside marriage one in three babies were born to unmarried parents.

5.   He added that the UK continues to have the highest proportion of people in work than any other EC country except Denmark.

6.   And single-parent families will be hardest hit, because they pay the highest proportion of their income for health coverage.

7.   Burlingame said the highest proportions of cutbacks were needed in corporate support departments like law, public relations, human resources, real estate and finance.

8.   But even in Saskatchewan, the province with the highest proportion of rural residents, Roy Romanow was re-elected premier on the strength of city votes.

9.   Debris from sites in more temperate latitudes had a smaller proportion of man-made items, while sites in the Southern Ocean had the highest proportion.

10.   Florida also has the highest overall proportion of unmarried couples among Southern states.