1.   Bread prices were beginning to rise and industrial disputes were entering very bitter phases in several large occupations, including coal heavers, silk weavers and sailors.

2.   A poor wheat crop could lead to higher bread prices in the supermarket.

3.   Consumers would face higher bread prices if the merger went ahead, the regulator said, because of the dominant role of flour millers in the bread market.

4.   The rising cost of wheat, the logic goes, inevitably leads to higher bread prices.

5.   A sharp increase in bread prices sparked riots in August.

6.   Agriculture Minister Rumen Hristov indicated that bread prices might give consumers an even bigger shock.

7.   Bread prices have already risen several times this year, and the grain crunch promises to push them even higher.

8.   Bread prices quadrupled, as transport, energy and housing prices increased as much as ten-fold.

9.   Bread prices have nearly doubled since December.

10.   Bread prices have increased about fivefold since January.