101.  British retail sales rose by one percent in August from the figure for July, the office for national statistics said.

102.  British retail sales in August rose by one percent from the figure for July, the office for national statistics reported on Wednesday.

103.  Consumer prices in France remained stable for the third straight month in August, according to provisional data released by the national statistics institute INSEE Monday.

104.  The national statistics bureau is expected to publish the official figures at the end of the month.

105.  The Polish national statistics agency is due to release February unemployment data on Thursday.

106.  The office for national statistics also announced that manufactured output for the month of May remained unchanged from the month of April.

107.  The office of national statistics said the main downward pressure on the consumer prices in May came from smaller increases in food prices than a year ago.

108.  The rates as calculated by the European Statistics Office sometimes differ from the ones given by national statistics agencies.

109.  Mordechai Eliahu slammed the national statistics office for counting homosexuals living together as couples and for using the Gregorian instead of the Hebrew calendar to record dates of birth.

110.  No one can even provide national statistics on deaths and injuries, although the figure is likely to be substantial.