Eventually it did get going in the summer but Money Box now knows that by Christmas fewer than 30, 000 had successfully filed their tax return using this method - a small fraction of the number the Revenue was hoping for.

BBC: Money Box - Saturday 30 December 2000

Mr Cassidy expects around 150 banks to go bust over the next two to three years, a small fraction of the number that failed in the savings-and-loan crisis of the 1980s and 1990s but a sharp rise all the same: just three have folded in the past three years.

ECONOMIST: The bust is starting to catch up with regional lenders

The outbreak has sparked concern about a possible spike in food prices, but authorities said Monday that the number of slaughtered chickens is a small fraction of the country's overall population and there is no reason for egg or chicken prices to increase.

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