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Your support makes all the difference.Miles private school boarders (average height 4'6') would stretch if lying head to toe: 100
Percentage of males aged 16-24 who have never had sexual intercourse with a woman: 20
Children permanently expelled from their state school since 1990: 3,000
Juveniles convicted or cautioned in 1991: 105,000
Percentage who say roads should not cross sites of natural beauty or historic interest: 75
Percentage of car journeys in Wales covering less than five miles: 65
Average monthly loss of jobs in the UK automotive industry in the 1980s: 1,750
Government's expected average daily income from privatisation sales 1992-93: 22,220,000
Average debt of a British resident: pounds 958
Per capita foreign debt of Jordanians: pounds 1,093
US investment projects in the UK since 1981: 1,274. Japanese: 302
Decapitated seals found in Scotland last year: 29
Scottish bathing waters unfit for swimming in 1987: 4. In 1992: 8
Proportion of English country parishes with no recycling facility: 5/6
US percentage import tariff on the price of brooms: 42
Sources: Headmasters' Conference; Nature; Dept for Education; Home office; Gallup/Info 93; RM/Welsh Office; RM/Dept of Employment; Treasury (pounds 8bn); RM/Treasury (pounds 52.7bn); RM/Roger Knapman MP (dollars 7bn); DTI; Scottish Office; ibid; RM/Rural Development Council (under 10k pop); USA Today.
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