• This is almost the same as the amount wrapped up in Germany's more heralded tax reforms.

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  • Amazon was a wild ride in 2011, and today is worth almost the same as it was one year ago.

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  • Nearby is almost the same as City Lens in Lumia phones which is exclusive and unique in mapping and location data.

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  • Don't forget that during a bear market you suffer almost the same as a buy-and-hold investor--you ride the stock down with only a few bucks of option income to cushion the fall.

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  • Wider research into costs to the economy of Scotland suggests that if carers stopped doing what they do it would cost society almost the same as the entire NHS budget in Scotland.

    BBC: Living life with Scotland's carers

  • If you pay at the airport, it worked out that being about 10 pounds (in weight, not sterling) over the expected baggage total weight yielded a fee that was almost the same as the original ENTIRE TICKET.

    FORBES: Cheap or Comfortable?

  • Tim Critchley, one of the founders of Pogo Technology, said this system meant data flies around at the equivalent of 50kbps - almost the same speed as the fastest computer modems.

    BBC: Pogo to the future

  • In terms of sound quality, the units sound almost exactly the same as S4i: warm with a pleasant amount of chunky bass that doesn't overwhelm the highs and mids.

    ENGADGET: Ears-on with Klipsch's latest intra-aural headphone lineup: Image S4 (II) series, X7i

  • 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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  • Guy Molyneux, a Democratic pollster, points out that in the past four elections with a sitting president, the incumbent's actual vote was almost exactly the same as his final polling number.

    ECONOMIST: After the debates

  • Their latest figure for all the gold in the world is 171, 300 tonnes - which is almost exactly the same as the amount in our super-villain's imaginary cube.

    BBC: How much gold is there in the world?

  • So, on the surface, at least, the balance of power in Washington after inauguration day on 20 January could be almost exactly the same as it is now.

    BBC: Gauging the fiscal cliff

  • The statistics showed that there were 29, 866 marriages in Scotland in 2007, almost exactly the same as in 2006, but considerably lower than the typical number of 40, 000 in the 1970s.

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  • Their activities are consuming about 7% of GNP--almost exactly the same as the much-reviled defense establishment.

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  • It's almost the same mix as in the solid-rocket boosters on the Space Shuttle, and it's powerful stuff.

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  • This is almost the same rate as this year's predicted increase in central-government revenue (2.4 trillion yuan is the target).

    ECONOMIST: Governing China

  • Borrowing at almost the same rates as the Treasury, they earn a fortune by investing the money in higher-yielding mortgages and mortgage-backed securities.

    ECONOMIST: Fannie, Freddie and Uncle Sam

  • The Senate has almost the same legislative powers as the House of Representatives, its committees are well respected, and it can even precipitate a dissolution of Parliament.

    ECONOMIST: The House of Lords

  • The senate has almost the same powers as Canada's House of Commons, except on money bills, but because its members have little democratic authority, it rarely contradicts the Commons.

    ECONOMIST: The House of Lords

  • The World Alternative Games, starting 17 August in Llanwrtyd Wells, will take place at almost the same exact time as the 2012 Olympic Games, and will feature events such as wife-carrying and rock-paper-scissors.

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  • The clinical trials of the vaccine showed the main side effects being headache and sore arms in a small percent of patients, and those rates were almost exactly the same as those for a sham injection.

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  • But - within almost the same breath as insisting the firefighters were too sensible to think they could return to 1979 and the winter of discontent, or 1984 and the miners' strike - he repeated his message that "industrial militancy to pursue political ends is not on".

    BBC: Blair warns strikers they cannot win

  • And Dr Martin said the town looked almost exactly physically the same as it did when the Titanic sailed, adding that "the hospitality and the warmth" of residents was "as in evidence today as it was 100 years ago".

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  • Whites, who account for 9% of the population, gained 42% of the degrees awarded in 2007, almost exactly the same proportion as blacks, who are nearly ten times more numerous.

    ECONOMIST: South Africa's education system

  • 'Even Ringo has adapted to the colours, ' she says, gesturing towards a sandy-coloured dog almost precisely the same hue as the stone flagstone on which he is lying.

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  • The PowerShot G6 - One of two new seven megapixel cameras (the other being the S70), the G6 has almost the same 4x optical zoom lens as the G5, tons of manual controls, and a 2-inch foldout LCD screen.

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  • They liked the straightforward shape, with a desktop terminal almost the same length and width as a piece of paper.

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  • One of the amazing things about mobile phones in the past is that they almost all worked on the same frequencies - as agreed by the World Administrative Radio Conference which meets every few years.

    BBC: Viewpoint: What 4G means for you and your phone

  • The previous most recent rapid-adoption consumer product was the iPhone that took almost twice as long to achieve the same unit sales.

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  • If Mr Obama wins, in other words, he is almost certain to face the same foes as before.

    ECONOMIST: Congress

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