What is the quality difference between real-time data on all credit and debit card transactions versus a survey of a mere fraction of all retailers?
Mr. Arafat had also observed the unilateral Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon, under pressure, with no formal deal, and seemingly as a result of a mere trickle of casualties.
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Their stories are the continuation of the immigrant dream, said Mr. Levine, whose own family has roots on the Lower East Side, and lift the film out of a mere lamentation of the old New York lost to modernity.
To prevail in a civil case, the plaintiff need only persuade the trier of fact by a mere preponderance of evidence that the elements of the cause of action have been proved.
Most immediately, what fusion in any of its manifestations does not address is the problem of providing liquid fuels as conventional supplies of oil and gas decline, and it is this which is the greatest and most pressing matter to be dealt with, against a backdrop of mere years not a luxury of decades.
Celebrated bloggers and media personalities were constantly seen scurrying across the lobby at a frenetic pace in hot pursuit of juicy tidbits that would appear on Twitter in a mere matter of seconds.
For him, a statue of Zeus enthroned or Christ crucified would have been an impediment to belief, a mere lump of shaped matter.
It has a population of a mere 2.5m, and it is struggling to reconstruct its economy after half a century of Soviet occupation that ended only in 1990.
For example, the cost of food as a proportion of one's income is a mere fraction of what it was decades ago.
In a marketplace that has become exponentially competitive, in which there has been an erosion of key American values, and in which keeping up with the ongoing revolution in information technology is a mere cost of entry, building brands is, well, to put it mildly, a challenge.
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But he argues the appeal of the service is much broader than a mere rebalancing of power for the purposes of dispute resolution.
There is not much time to take decisions about the future of the Colonial Office before it becomes a mere shell of its present active self.
Available in six colours, with a high grade of touch and feel, and a pen length of a mere 4.7 centimetres (1.85 inches), the Bamboo Stylus mini is Wacom's latest offering in its portfolio of capacitive styli.
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While the Koenigsegg's 28 bar BMEP is, in fact, a record for a production V8, it is still a mere fraction of the BMEP of, say, a top fuel dragster.
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It is indisputable that the tsunami of corporate misconduct in decades past has resulted in a mere trickle of whistleblower cases.
It is easily the most capable surface combatant ever conceived, but when the Navy saw the price-tag for the finished product it decided to buy only three rather than the 32 planned, meaning it spent billions of dollars to get to a point where it could build a mere handful of vessels.
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If thousands of people owned the team, any individual divorces would have been a mere grain of sand on the beach line of corporate operations.
Arabic is such a language that the simple addition of a mere letter to a word can completely change the entire meaning of it.
Until the launch of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) experiment in 2011, scientists had compiled a mere anthill of information about the kinds of charged particles, or cosmic rays, that shoot around the universe.
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According to Rothstein Kass in a recent study, an index of women-led funds produced a net return of 9%, compared to a global index return of a mere 3%.
Implantees like Andrew imagine the ability to unclutter their pockets of keys and keycards and instead access their cars, computers, and homes with with a mere wave of the hand.
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It took me three days and apart from when I was traversing two areas that had been government-mandated as "areas of outstanding natural beauty" - the Ashdown Forest and the South Downs - I saw a mere handful of people in the countryside.
We must accept that all action must be planned in a mere twilight of uncertainty.
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Thus Medicare has a mere handful of mostly generalist clinicians reviewing its coverage and payment decisions.
What survived would be a mere shadow of the combat-vehicle industrial base that America once had.
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Guerrero landed a mere 81 of his power punches and was never able to hurt Mayweather.
That's a mere third of the price of Cessna's hugely successful starter jet, the Citation I.
And that is a mere taster of Mr Heard's fascinating, at times frankly loopy, cornucopia.
Under Brian Roberts, Comcast has not been content to be a mere distributor of programming.
This is of course most un-European of me, a mere vestigial remnant of past tribal insults.
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