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Imagine the difference it might have made to Ireland and Iceland, say, if supervisors there had resisted banks' eye-watering credit growth.

It has built a famously generous welfare state based on eye-watering taxes, and yet avoided such mistakes as wholesale nationalisation.

Instead what you see is eye-watering quantities of hard work compressed into the period between birth and adolescence.

Whether such eye-watering cuts can really be made is one of the big unanswered questions raised by this budget.

Parents would love to see those eye-watering fees come down, but that is not about to happen.

Yet Mr Rajoy knows that, with the markets in a euro funk and bond yields at eye-watering highs, mere promises count for little.

Styled like a Faberge Easter egg, the chocolate concoction will set you back an eye-watering ?

The buyer was a private collector, who chose to remain anonymous after the eye-watering purchase.

Include all three and the total cost could amount to an eye-watering 90% of GDP.

The maths of this can be pretty eye-watering.

One player, AC Milan's Kaka, has attracted an eye-watering bid of as much as $150 million from the Arab-funded English club Manchester City.

A eye-watering 95% of cars were not collected at airports impacted by the crisis.

The trains may reach 350km per hour but fares are proportionately eye- watering.

To make things easier, here are some tips, offered without the eye-watering fee a financial spin doctor would charge.

Dalian shares are up an eye-watering 260pc this year.

This is just one example of the eye-watering performance by the F-22 team to reach the 183-hour goal.

It weigh-ed just 2. 84lb (1. 3kg) but cost an eye-watering $2, 000.