• The sector represents 12% of Singapore GDP (compared with about 15% for Hong Kong) and it is consistently one of the fastest-growing segments of its economy.

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  • Compared with the estimated need (about ten times that) it is the latter.

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  • With 38% of Liverpudlians (compared with 25% of Britons) working for the state, it occupies about 35% of available space and accounts for half of recent employment growth in the city.

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  • Some unions are objecting to the plan, but if the government gets its way, stock options and further distributions of shares next year will leave it with about 53% of Air France (compared with 95% today).

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  • EU, although it has 375m people compared with America's 280m, spends only about 57% of what America does on defence.

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  • After creating a slide show about getting people involved in a committee that I lead, I compared it with a slide show I made using photos from a Labor Day weekend trip I took to Charlottesville, Va.

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  • It comes with only about 2.5 gigabytes of usable storage, compared with a more typical 16 gigabytes on other phones, though you can expand the storage by buying a larger memory card.

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  • About 47 percent of voters now say it was right to go to war, compared with 64 percent in April and 58 percent in June, according to the survey published in The Times of London.

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  • It is true that, compared with Americans, Europeans spend much time thinking of, talking about and subsidising their high culture.

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  • Djokovic finished off Querrey at about 10 minutes shy of 2 a.m. and although it's nothing compared with the Australian Open day(s) in 2008 when Lleyton Hewitt beat Marcos Baghdatis at 4:34 a.m.

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  • But it can hardly be compared with the damage done by record companies and the movie industry in complaining about, and removing, fan sites and material which allegedly infringed copyright.

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  • Africa and the Caspian Sea region, it figures, can supply it with about 1.6 million barrels a day of oil in a few years, compared with worldwide liquids production (crude and natural gas condensates) of 2.5 million barrels a day last year.

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