1.   Although students receive government grants, parents are still expected to pay towards living costs.

2.   But other authorities also face recruiting difficulties, which suggests that the problem extends beyond high living costs and poor pay.

3.   Many families now rely on a joint income to meet their living costs.

4.   The inverse relationship between living costs and childbearing is found throughout the developing world.

5.   This brought in loans to help towards student living costs.

6.   Its executive announced that it would seek substantial wage increases for its members, to compensate them for the inevitable rises in living costs.

7.   This takes no account of other basic living costs like housing, clothing and medical care.

8.   And in France living costs were lower than in other European countries.

9.   And the use of food costs as a proxy for living costs will always make the poverty index suspect.

10.   Athletes have to pay their own way for training camps and for living costs.