And the upstart is fast closing in on critical advertising dollars.
Of these, Latvia, Malta and Slovakia are fast closing in on the leaders, Lithuania is moving a little more slowly, while Bulgaria and Romania are lagging well behind.
One insider thinks this unlikely: many parents have remortgaged to pay fees, and with house prices shaky and banks tightening their lending criteria, this route is fast closing off.
That output gap is fast closing.
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After being passed by I'll Have Another deep in the stretch, Bodemeister hung on for second, finishing a neck ahead of the fast-closing Dullahan.
Then, in December, he had to sweat it out for the European money title against a fast-closing McIlroy, who won that Tour's next-to-last event in Hong Kong.
With a robust economy, some Chinese had imagined the gap with America was closing fast.
The window for a negotiated restraint on Iran's nuclear activities in which others could have confidence is closing fast.
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That said, Immelt offered some encouraging signs the wage gap that drove thousands of manufacturing jobs to Asia is closing fast.
And since NFC-compatible smartphones are expected to account for the majority of mobile shipments in 2013, that gap is closing fast.
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Ginobili could have taken the shot, but with the Thunder's James Harden closing fast, he took one dribble to his left and drew Harden away.
The very slow start of Windows 7 is the best sign that the window of opportunity for an additional ecosystem to ramp-up is closing fast.
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For Microsoft, the decline will most likely be slow, but for the possibility of reattaining its prominence in the world of computing, its window is closing fast.
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Average living standards in China are still only a sixth and in India a fourteenth of those in America at PPP exchange rates, but the gap is already much smaller than it was and is closing fast.
Coal mines are closing down, but not fast enough to match consumption with production.
Like signing a mortgage closing, the checklist of small-seeming 401(k) charges adds up fast.
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