The apparent excess of fathers monitored for radiation among children with leukaemia does not seem to be because the number of such fathers in the control group was unusually low by chance.

One reason the city is able to deploy career firefighters to the volunteer fire houses is because of an apparent excess of fire personnel in the city department.

He also coughed and cleared his throat frequently, due to an apparent excess of phlegm.

The discrepancy might be accounted for, he said, if the apparent excess of electron neutrinos was coming not from the cosmic background but from the decay of protons in the water detector.

On his retirement the Guardian newspaper commented:- "If he has a public profile at all it is because Byford came to symbolise the apparent excesses of top executive pay at the corporation.

A recent large randomised study in India found no such effect but rather an apparent slight excess of deaths in the supplemented group.

To be safe, Ryan changed the parameters in the oxygen control software so that if an apparent excess of oxygen occurred, the suit's computer would keep oxygen production going, rather than cut it to zero.

Thanks to the growing skill of companies at camouflage, and also to a steady erosion of old inhibitions against apparent excess, the average pay of C.E.O.'s at major companies has skyrocketed.

There remain to be considered the three species for which there is an apparent excess of isolated teeth.

So there is no way to know how much of that apparent $18.5 billion excess of assets over liabilities is wiped out by those debts.