When the summit convened last week, its venue -- expanded to 500 seats -- was sold out.

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To prevent that, he wants the village's land expanded 20-fold, to 500 hectares (1, 235 acres).

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First Solar expanded the annual production capacity to 500 megawatts from 250 megawatts only last year.

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The company recently expanded a test of video game rentals to 5, 000 kiosks from 500.

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The pay difference between the top and the bottom in large corporations has expanded tremendously since the early 1980s (roughly speaking, it has gone from 100 to 1 to 500 to 1).

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Also, after hardly budging in the first half of the 20th century, the English vocabulary expanded at a rate of 8, 500 words a year in the second half, leading to a 70% increase in its size since 1950 (see chart).

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The survey, now in its third year, expanded to include Indonesia, and now has more than 1, 900 analysts from 158 firms compared with 1, 500 analysts from 129 firms last year.

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