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Like cars, they lose a huge proportion of their value the moment they are taken off the shelf.
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They can haggle better with the middlemen, who have tended to skim a huge proportion of rural revenue.
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Why would you risk alientating such a huge proportion of your readership?
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Kabul, for example, which contains a huge proportion of the Afghan population as a whole, has been largely policed by Afghan forces for quite some time.
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Enterprise customers constitute a huge proportion of its overall customer base that use its Blackberry phones to connect to its enterprise server and send secure encrypted messages.
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But I guess there must come a point in time when it would be, you know odd if you were, if there was a huge proportion of your funding coming from one particular source.
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This is the first collection of his letters, and, ample though it is, it represents only a small proportion of the huge number of letters that Toscanini wrote in a long life.
ECONOMIST: Musical lives
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Adults have this neurotic relationship with death, it gets blown out of all proportion, they make a huge deal out of it when in fact it's really the most banal thing there is.
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They remember the Poll Tax - and they also know that local taxation raises a relatively low proportion of council funding but provokes a huge degree of voter ire.
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If there is a huge amount of mild swine flu we don't know about, the proportion of cases that are serious is correspondingly reduced.
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Nokia also has the advantage of being the world's leading handset-maker: it will sell around 470m devices this year, and if even a small proportion of its customers sign up for Ovi next year, that is a huge market.
ECONOMIST: Nokia
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The proportion of infested farms is lower in New Zealand, a country that has a huge population of sheep, but even there it is rising at a worrying rate.
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