The results showed the fourth monthly drop in a row, and the ninth successive 12-month drop in retail sales, the worst statistics since the Second World War.
And excess winter deaths seem to be increasing: despite last year's mild winter, an estimated 43,900 excess winter deaths occurred – a rise of 140% on the previous year and the worst statistics since 1999-2000.
It's not just the image they have of the north-east – it does have the worst statistics, in health, in booze… If you look at many CEOs of big companies here, they don't live up here.
In a season that saw not one but two quarterbacks break the single-season passing record, which had stood for almost thirty years, or a football century, the quarterback who earned the most headlines compiled some of the worst statistics in recent memory, and yet somehow — miraculously?
Just before the Murdoch tweet, Colin Moynihan – a former Tory minister, alumnus of Monmouth school and chair of the British Olympic Association – cited the fact that 50% of Britain's gold-medal winners at the Beijing Olympics were from private schools as "one of the worst statistics in British sport".
He described it as one of the "worst statistics in British sport".
But new figures show that clubs lost more than 1.6bn euros (£1.33bn) in 2010 - the worst statistics on record.
They were growing up in an area, which had some of the worst statistics in Western Europe for child poverty, crime and drug abuse.
Just try to hint that the U.S. is not the greatest country in the world and you'll be labeled a traitor, despite the fact that we are number one in some of the worst statistics possible.
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