1.  Adding to the general gloom, a rather significant statistic that the government began to publish only last year is not going in the right direction at all.

2.  Maybe this is nitpicking, what with strikes and lockouts and injuries and trades and a half dozen other factors impacting the orderly collection of significant statistics.

3.  This time, they accounted for every significant statistic while playing all but two minutes of the game.

4.  Basuki, who had two set points in the second, said that was a less significant statistic against Graf.

5.  The dollar traded within a narrow range, in the absence of significant statistics and of progress in the US federal budget battle.