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.

Only a(n) ________ few were invited to the dancing party.