The wealth of a country should be measured ________ the health and happiness of its people as well as the material goods it can produce.

When workers are organized in trade unions, employers find it hard to lay them ________.

It's more ________ to buy a season ticket if you travel every day.

To study a foreign language, __________.

He thoroughly understood the society __________.

As you like pop music, __________ I like literature.

I bought this eighteenth century writing desk at a quite ________ price.

The farmer had to wear heavy boots in the winter because the fields were too wet and________.

Sixty per cent of television viewers chose him as their _______ actor.

In the future, more ______ should be placed on the education of the young.