If Fortescue's production costs exceed the spot price, it would hardly be the only Australian commodities firm in trouble.

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That will hardly be the only debate flowing from the Madrid NATO summit.

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Humans may be the great communicators of the natural world, but we're hardly the only ones.

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Baseball was hardly the only sport to be much whiter than the populace at Richards.

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However, this can hardly be the case, inasmuch as not only are more people born every year, more also die.

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The upright Mr Balladur can hardly, they say, be accused of sympathy for the Front: only this spring, after a regional election, he refused to take the presidency of the Ile de France region (which surrounds Paris) if that meant accepting votes from Fronters.

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Probably the only thing to be said with any confidence is that the downgrade could hardly have come at a worse time, in that conditions in global markets are febrile.

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The threat of an EMP attack is hardly the only reason for ensuring that ballistic missiles cannot be used to do harm to this country, but it is a particularly compelling one.

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According to Leichtman Research Group, there are only 33 million broadband subscribers in the U.S., hardly a number that can be considered saturation.

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