• The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.

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  • In 2007, the murder of an Italian woman by a Romanian Roma man in Italy created deep tensions in a country where over half a million Romanians live and work.

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  • He was also a man plugged into technology, an early investor in Google whose Twitter feed numbered close to a million.

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  • In second place was Ivan Ukhov - the man responsible for a million YouTube hits last year after competing under the influence of booze in Lausanne.

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  • The man got a piece of shrapnel in his arm, the million-dollar wound.

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  • Acting on a million-dollar tip from a dying man in Naples, Guy Van Stratten (Robert Arden), a small-time international intriguer with a Flatbush accent, tracks down a feared global potentate, Gregory Arkadin (Orson Welles), who hires him to do a sensitive job: to investigate Arkadin himself.

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  • Almost quarter of a million pounds in rent is owed to housing authorities across the Isle of Man, according to official figures.

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  • It was gearing up for what would be more than a million-man commitment to the western front, as well as for involvement in what by that time was a globe-spanning naval conflict.

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  • It is a cracked and crumpled layer-cake of rocks, 480 million years in the making, a landscape sculpted by ice then transformed by man and a witness to the birth of the Industrial Revolution.

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  • According to present and former members of SEAL Team 6, the "point man" who fired the shot that likely mortally wounded bin Laden will never "in a million years" speak publicly about his role in the raid.

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  • In fact, the 20% increase in mortality that a woman marrying a man seven-to-nine years younger suffers (at least in Denmark, where the 2 million couples in the study lived) is almost exactly the same as the mortality rate of women who marry men 7-to-17 years their senior.

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  • The 2006 Australian wine surplus was estimated to hit 900 million liters, enough to serve every man, woman and child in the world a glass on the house.

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  • At the airport, Mr Taylor said that after tasting freedom the most important thing was to get to know his family again after his period in captivity, and there are "a million things" he wants to do as a free man.

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