1.   The figures for wastage rates between levels of education reproduce much the same patterns between different regions and between the sexes.

2.   Such measures are needed to equalize wage rates between countries.

3.   With this version of the theory, the change in the exchange rate over a period will equal the differential inflation rates between the two countries.

4.   This could also explain the difference in biliary lipid secretion rate between the two groups.

5.   Inevitably the question reverts to how far the UK government is prepared to go in persuading its EC partners to harmonise duty rates between beer, wine and spirits.

6.   Analysts, traders and investors had expected a cut to the intervention rate by between a tenth and a quarter of a percentage point.

7.   And there is no known difference in dropout rates between those in bilingual classes and those of similar background studying only in English.

8.   A surge in wholesale electricity rates between May and August substantially raised the price that utilities had to pay to supply power to their customers.

9.   Again, there was no difference in the abortion rates between those women subject to the family cap and those who were not.