Hong Kong has been the world's biggest IPO market for the past two years.
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The real strength of Star Wars has always been the world Lucas created in those first movies.
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Samsung had been the world's leading television manufacturer for the last six years, selling 57 million sets in the last year.
It may not have been the world's best investment, but it garnered Bulgari lots of free publicity the second time around.
Colombia has long been the world leader: Kroll reckons 4, 000 kidnaps took place there last year (just 2, 043, says the government).
For most of this year the yen has been the world's strongest currency, but the forces that pushed it up have shifted into reverse.
Indeed, South Korea has been the world's best-performing stockmarket in 1998, with a rise of 103% in dollar terms (roughly half of it due to currency gains).
Afghans have been the world's single largest group of refugees for 19 years in row, due to war, famine, drought and political repression, according to the UNHCR.
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For six years it has been the world's largest exporter.
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China just passed a new milestone: it consumes more energy than the United States, which had been the world leader ever since energy consumption started to be measured.
The second and no doubt leading contributor to the gold bubble has been the world financial crisis of 2008-2009 and the subsequent worldwide central bank policy of monetary expansion to fight financial asset price deflation.
The latter has been the world's leading spinner in the past couple of years, but he was a little lackluster in last year's India series, claiming 13 wickets in the four games at more than 40 runs each.
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These large vessels have been largely kept in business by governmental subsidies, say non-governmental organizations like the WWF which has been urging the World Trade Organization (WTO) to do something about them.
They've never seen the outside world or been in the green world of plants and trees and vines.
Fast-forward to 2013 and it is Vonn's turn to thank the elements as the American has been handed the World Cup downhill crown for a record sixth year in a row -- despite being sidelined with a serious knee injury.
Each of the last three years the United States has been ranked the world's most competitive economy.
"He is third in line to the throne, he's been on the world stage for weeks and weeks, he is supposedly surrounded by police security officers, " he said.
You know, David, I don't think any of us were under the illusion that, again, having been off the world stage for so long, in dealing with this issue and in understanding what it was going to take to get developing nations of the world at the table that all these issues might be neatly wrapped up by December of this year.
Appeals for the Fenice have been made around the world, some of them in connection with the Venice in Peril Fund, which has been helping to restore bits of the city since it was damaged in the great floods of 1966.
You can get into the best minds that are now or that have ever been in the world.
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Had these four been worth as much in March when we published our list of the world's billionaires, they all would have been ranked among the world's ten richest.
Only two teams have never been to the World Series, eight teams have never won, and only eight teams have never been to more than one World Series.
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The experts will look for the presence of chemicals that may have been stored in the World Trade Center complex, or hazardous materials, including asbestos, that may have been released as the buildings were destroyed.
While the price of devices has been steadily decreasing, mobile operators all over the world have been driving growth in the M2M market over the past years as we can see by rapidly increasing numbers of M2M subscribers and higher revenues.
Up until then, the dollar had been linked to gold and virtually all major currencies around the world had been linked to the dollar.
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The team, which had been tipped to fight for the world championship, has been struggling to make an impact on the track this year.
Sir Leon has been touring the world to drum up support for a new round.
Indeed, Lauvergeon has been traveling the world defending the technology in the wake of the disaster.
Luanda has been reckoned the world's most expensive capital, though Tokyo recently overtook it.
Its economy has been the biggest in the world for the last 110 years.
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