Rail market share, compared to air, has increased from 12% in 2008 to 49% in 2011, with more than seven million people travelling on the route annually.

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But business groups criticised the remarks, accusing the Labour leader of "hyperbole" and conflating people with total assets worth more than a million with the much smaller group of people who earn a seven-figure salary.

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In my case, I was both a victim and a witness to organized violence of a Muslim majority state against its own population with the result that one out of seven people, nearly ten million, were forced from their homes to take refuge in a neighboring country as refugees and over half-million were killed.

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The Ufi was established in 1998 to address the concern that over seven million people in the UK have a significant skills deficiency when compared with other European countries.

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This is the mass production that China is famed for, with the company today employing a total of 1, 500 people and making around seven million pairs of scissors and three million knives a year.

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Agencies are warning that seven countries in the south face a potentially catastrophic famine - with as many as 14 million people at risk of starvation.

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This city of seven million people living in various high rise towers at the base of sea-surrounded mountains is gleaming with shiny new buildings, expensive cars, and prestige-brand shopping malls.

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