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  • Greg Rosenblatt, vice president of Stark Carpet, says he has been working with One Kings Lane about five times a year to liquidate the company's excess inventory.

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  • As part of the trial cull, researchers have trapped and euthanised sick animals two to five times a year from an isolated population in the south-east of Tasmania.

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  • Just by math, in a stochastic system with a stable mean, a land area of this size somewhere should have a 100-year high month about five times a year!

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  • 'This dates from a time when people used to make bread four or five times a year, ' explains Victoria as she serves the crostas in a shallow terracotta bowl, brimming over with juicy, golden chunks.

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  • Natural history goes to auction five or six times a year in America, and one Sunday last May a big sale took place in Chelsea, at the onetime home of the Dia Center for the Arts.

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  • JPMorgan sells at 0.8 times book, below a five-year average of 1 times book.

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  • The visit to Ohio State the first of three commencement addresses Obama will give this season was a homecoming of sorts for Obama, who has visited the campus five times over little more than a year, starting with his first official campaign rally here last May.

    NPR: Obama Dares Graduates To Reject Cynical Voices

  • The Bank of Canada has raised its overnight rate five times in little over a year.

    ECONOMIST: Canada's economy

  • High levels of consumer spending and the over-heated property market, stoked by historically low interest rates, have prompted the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) to raise the base rate five times in less than a year.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Scotland | Economic growth 'will continue'

  • While a typical 60-year-old today might pay five to seven times more for health insurance than a 20-year-old, the new law limits that ratio to three times what a typical young person might pay, says Robert Zirkelbach, a spokesman for America's Health Insurance Plans, the industry's trade group.

    WSJ: Getting Going: Tackling the New Health-Care Rules

  • Councillor Mick Bennett, chair of tourism and leisure at North East Lincolnshire Council, said under the five-year agreement the beach was inspected three times a year, and any growth manually removed.

    BBC: Council cuts more salt marsh from Cleethorpes beach

  • The civilian death rate across the country, they reckon, is more than five times lower than it was a year ago.

    ECONOMIST: Iraq

  • They know what they are signing up for even if it means going to Iraq or Afghanistan three, or four times in a five-year period.

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  • In the battle between the former world number ones, Williams needed barely an hour to beat her Belgian opponent and remains on course to win the gem-encrusted racket on offer for winning the event three times in a five-year span.

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  • The Hobson plant has the capacity for one million pounds of ore a year, five times as much as it does now.

    FORBES: Energy's Latest Battleground: Fracking For Uranium

  • This is the part where I am obnoxiously supposed to tell you that if a guy like Tony Parker played in a city like New York, he would be five times as popular and be on the cover of GQ three times a year and own an underwater disco restaurant with Mario Batali and Robert De Niro.

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  • In one fairly typical encounter, a father asked his eight-year-old son five times to please go take a bath or a shower.

    NEWYORKER: Spoiled Rotten

  • His goal is to boost sales to as much as 10, 000 units a year, about five times more than Bentley and Rolls-Royce will sell in total this year.

    ECONOMIST: Luxury cars

  • As a result, its shares now sell at a modest 14 times latest-12-month profits, vs. a five-year average earnings multiple of 19.

    FORBES: Stock Focus: Betting The Farm

  • But if, as at the Academy I visited in Lewisham, good GCSE results doubled in a year, and a school once under-subscribed, now five times over-subscribed, how is that a denial of public service values?

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  • Pettitte never had a losing season in his 16 year career and lost double-digit games in a season five times.

    FORBES: A Fond Farewell To Yankee Stalwart Andy Pettitte

  • Sales are said to have jumped from 100, 000 pills a month early this year to five times as many now.

    CNN: IN THE GRIP OF ECSTASY

  • Sue Collins, the owner of one of those properties, has been flooded five times this year, making her "more than a bit paranoid" every time it rains heavily, she said.

    BBC: Feniton flooding, November 2008

  • Also, considering the speed of evolution of mobile device features and operating systems, evolving field requirements, ongoing maintenance of multiple platforms can cost multiple times the initial development budget over a five-year period.

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  • According to the consulting firm, by the end of March this year, the aggregate indebtedness of the UK - that's the sum of household debts, company debts, government debts and bank debts - had risen to 492% of GDP, or almost five times the value of everything we produce in a single year.

    BBC: UK's debts 'biggest in the world'

  • "Instead of replacing a bulb seven times a year, now you're talking about not touching a bulb for four or five years, " said Eric Dominguez, Caesars Entertainment's director of energy services.

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  • England had fallen at the semi-final stage of this 31-year-old tournament five times, including a 13-12 penalty defeat to the Netherlands two years ago.

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  • You need 50 percent a year so you just need to work five times as long as you would like to be retired.

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  • Most cycles are four weeks long, but a few times every year, you get five-week cycles which is what we have to look forward to with the August options series.

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