At the beginning of a new volume, the issue number of a comic book may or may not roll back to No. 1.

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By the beginning of the second half, Twitter said its volume of tweets had already surpassed last year's total for the whole game.

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Even as Europe seems to be sliding into a genuine handset market slump, China is still acting as a counterbalance, continuing to beat handset and particularly 3G device volume sales projections made at the beginning of 2011.

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Volume on Pegasus soared from basically nothing at the beginning of 2006 to more than 1 million trades a day.

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On top of that, research from the Mortgage Bankers Association shows that mortgage volume for retail has grown 163% since the beginning of 2011.

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Since Somalia, Iraq and the Palestinian territories have all known worse years than 2009, it may be that Italy's deal with Libya happened to come into force just as the volume of migrants reaching the North African coast was beginning to dip anyway.

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"Due to the enormous volume of clearance work and other difficulties attendant upon the beginning of a new administration, combined with an abbreviated transition period, this process took longer than either Mr. Rove or I would have wished, or than it would have taken at other times during a presidential term, " Gonzales wrote.

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In my view, the most likely way for the company to achieve this is to bring volume sales of the flagship Bold 9900 to full bloom by the beginning of September in North America, Europe, Africa and Asia.

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Beginning six months ago, social media coverage of Apple has become increasingly negative, not just the tone but also the volume.

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