To some extent, last year's figures must have been boosted by the inclusion of Frankel, who won the opening race.
And from writer Steve Thompson, whom some fans will never forgive for The Curse of the Black Spot or, to a lesser extent, last year's Journey to the Centre of the Tardis, here was his first truly confident Who script.
The gap between the three-month interbank rate, at which banks lend to one another, and the base rate had opened up to an extraordinary extent last year (see chart).
They reached their sixth lowest extent this year.
That welcoming spirit pervaded many prairie towns and continues to some extent today.
To what extent millennium fever led to prolonged life elsewhere could not be immediately determined.
To this extent, today's visit might be regarded as a tad incongruous.
To what extent winter raises the risk is a matter of debate.
With the shrinking ice – which reached a record low winter extent this year – these onshore stints have been getting longer.
In 2008, and, to a lesser extent, 2012, Barack Obama's campaign received a lot of cash from Wall Street.
What the City saw on Wednesday and, to a lesser extent, yesterday, is a distillation of all those new techniques.
