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Your support makes all the difference.Annual cost per point of ITV and C4's 50 per cent audience share: pounds 33,000,000
Of BBC1 and BBC2's 42 per cent share: pounds 29,600,000
Percentage of homes in all 25 European states, including the former Soviet Union, equipped with television: 91
Households with television: 258,600,000
Gamma-dose radiation monitors located across Britain to detect nuclear reactor leaks: 92
Across Germany: 2,000
Percentage of household fire deaths caused
by smokers' materials: 30
Average number of years taken by a US government
department to buy a computer: 4
Candidates failing their driving test in 1991: 886,100
Motoring offences in 1982: 6,720,000
In 1991: 8,400,000
Hectares of orchards and small fruit crops
in Britain in 1981: 52,000
In 1992: 48,000
Percentage of government-funded research and development which goes to agriculture: 4
To war: 44.3
Number of times per hour surveyed British Telecom clerks were tapping their keyboards: 13,000
Sources: RM/ITC/Barb/BBC (licence revenue only,
radio cost deducted); ibid; RM/ITC/CIT Research (1990); ibid; New Scientist No. 1891 (Rimnet, IMIS systems); ibid; Home Office Fire Statistics UK 1991; US Vice- President Albert Gore/New Scientist; Central Statistical Office Annual Abstract of Statistics 1993; Home Office; ibid; Central Statistical Office Annual Abstract of Statistics 1993; ibid; Project on Demilitarisation/Cabinet Office (1992); New Scientist (1992).
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