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There is still a chance that the divorce statistics might turn out to be better than the gloomy prediction from the ONS in coming years.

Without these extreme weather conditions, the ONS said, the economy would probably have been flat.

The ONS said the rise reflected both an increase in the number of women of child-bearing age and in fertility.

The ONS said the latter is being replaced by oven-ready joints, as people move towards more prepared foods.

In October this year, the ONS will produce a detailed report on how it proposes to measure these factors.

One of the big issues is whether to opt for a ponce y name or play safe with one from the ONS Top 100.

The ONS updates the list of goods included once a year.

The ONS said this was a reasonable result given the large share of financial services in the UK economy.

The figure could be even worse in reality because the ONS did not include graduates who are unemployed or who have never worked.

The ONS report showed the UK's output of production industries was revised up to 0. 8 percent in the last quarter of 2010.

Brie is out of the ONS survey this year; olive oil is in.

The ONS figures showed gas and electricity suppliers have been slow to respond to the collapse in the price of oil.

The ONS estimates divorce probabilities by studying the stable pattern of divorces by different vintages of marriages.

The problem is unsolvable, and if you disagree, may I recommend that you write directly to the ONS.

The ONS said that the number of job vacancies in the economy was continuing to fall, albeit at the slowest pace since spring 2008.

22 August's figures included larger-than-usual revisions as the ONS starts to incorporate methodology improvements.

That is because when CD players were scarce, the ONS did not collect CD prices.

The ONS is to publish figures for short-term migrants in October.

This information is hosted on a PML server that can now be queried, since we know its address from the ONS server.

The ONS already collects 120, 000 separate price quotations (representing 650 consumer goods and services in many different locations).

But there is a potential pitfall for Mr Brown. The ONS will unveil its initial estimate of GDP in the first quarter on April 23rd.

The ONS will publish its initial estimate for GDP in the first quarter on April 23rd.

Separate figures from the ONS revealed the UK's trade deficit widened to its biggest gap in April since September last year.

The ONS also downgraded its previous estimate of retail sales for July, down from 0. 4% month on month to just 0. 2%.

In Britain, the ONS has already moderated its initial estimate of a fall in GDP of 0. 4% in the third quarter of 2009, to 0. 2%.

The ONS figures also showed that by last year a third of couples who wed in 1995 had divorced.

The number of people working part-time fell by a record 175, 000 over the quarter to reach 7. 78 million, the ONS said.