These numbers could have been even bigger except Apple can not build the products fast enough to meet demands.

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Google is ten times bigger than Facebook, except when it comes to display advertising.

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Its solar yield is also bigger than any country except America.

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In fact, except on construction sites, and in the bigger markets where they hawk cheap clothes, fake furs and just about everything else, the Chinese are less obtrusive in Vladivostok than are ethnic Koreans in Sakhalin, descendants of the slave labourers once brought there by the Japanese.

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Except all these cuts to federal spending are off a much bigger base.

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The manufacturing sector accounts for a bigger percentage of jobs here than in any other state except Indiana.

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The press is irritable, partly because journalists see the need for bigger reforms, but also because there has been no exciting political story for months (except for the two German spies in Baghdad who allegedly helped the Americans with military intelligence and are now the subject of a parliamentary inquiry).

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