The effect was dramatic: state support, through bursaries and central grants, was hugely increased; the proportion of state school entrants increased considerably; for the first time in over a hundred years, there was considerable competition over places.
Bar owners often pay considerably for the broadcasts, usually from providers who own the American rights to the games.
Joffrey's death, which came in only the second of this run of episodes, also raised the stakes considerably for the rest of the season.
The Japanese and Hong Kong markets also plunged the day after the attack, and although they rose Friday, they were down considerably for the week.
"The securities industry had a strong start to 2011, but its prospects have cooled considerably for the second half of this year," Mr. DiNapoli said in a statement.
Then our heart rates dropped considerably for the next half-hour or so, so that's when you should probably go to the toilet or wander off and call your mum or something.
Bulked up considerably for the role, he plays Efraim Diveroli, one half of a real-life pair of twentysomething Yeshiva schoolfriends from Miami who made millions by hawking dodgy supplies to the US military.
On Fox, the second season of "Glee" (12.3 million) got off to an impressive start, but ratings dropped off considerably for the network's new comedies "Raising Hope" (7.5 million) and "Running Wilde" (5.9 million).
Mr Jennings did, however, confess to boning up considerably for the famous match which pitted him and the quiz's overall top cash earner Brad Rutter ($3.5m including end-of-season tournaments) against IBM's Watson computer.
Your masterly suit, pearl of your dreams, died a heroic death in a second-hand shop, and the same happened to all the unnecessary items in my luggage, which has now shrunk considerably for the benefit (I fondly hope) of economic stability..
In the absence of such a prominent link, traffic fell off considerably for the series, although it has picked up a bit more recently (the last dozen episodes have drawn an average of about 105,000 combined views on MySpace and YouTube).
