1.   Of the current crop of leading Test batsmen Graeme Hick is the one most at risk to the fast, short-pitched ball.

2.   The current crop of non-Windows databases can knock the socks off their predecessors.

3.   The same is true for the current crop of Fender Custom Shop guitars.

4.   With each successive moult the current crop of fungal parasites is shed along with the old exoskeleton.

5.   How right are the comments made by John Stewart about the current crop of Gaelic television programmes.

6.   Ambitious they may be, but the current crop of Republican revolutionaries will have a hard time matching what their predecessors did when they hit town.

7.   And even his current crop of advisers occasionally expresses frustration.

8.   Analysts say EU white sugar will keep users well supplied in the current crop year and weigh on prices in the coming weeks.

9.   And he believes he is the only GOP candidate of the current crop who can beat President Clinton.

10.   And competition among the ECNs themselves is rising, prompting widespread predictions that only a few of the current crop will survive very long into the new century.