The size of the digital universe this year will be tenfold what it was just five years earlier.
By February 2012, there were one billion mobile phones in China, up from 500 million five years earlier.
Five years earlier IBM had been the planet's heavyweight champ of market cap.
But very few places are unscathed by the trend: nearly all states saw more killings last year than five years earlier.
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PatientsLikeMe was launched in 2004 by family members of an architect who had contracted ALS five years earlier at the age of 29.
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Although that represented just 2.7% of its overall revenues, it was twice as much money as the Tube operator had raised five years earlier.
At elections in 2010, the PVV, which had been founded only five years earlier, used an anti-Islam platform to become the third-largest Dutch party.
The first was that of nine-year-old Claire Roberts, who also died at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children (RBHSC), five years earlier in 1996.
Evans was jailed for five years earlier this year for rape.
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In El Salvador, whose population is not much more than 6% of Mexico's, the number soared to 22, 000 last year, a 20-fold increase on five years earlier.
An estimated 30 million households had a vegetable garden in 2011, a 20% increase over five years earlier, according to the nonprofit National Gardening Association, in Burlington, Vt.
For Turkmenistan, China trade reached 21 percent of GDP in 2011, up from 1 percent five years earlier, according to an Associated Press analysis of International Monetary Fund data.
Since men die, on average, five years earlier than women, those much bemoaned visits to the doctor for a routine physical must play at least a minimal role in the difference between XX and XY longevity.
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As you can see from the figure below, the performance of the venture capital industry has been reasonably consistent for the past few years, with about exits being about 15 percent of investments made five years earlier.
But if they had been sold five years earlier, the buyer might have had time to invest and dig down to the lucrative deep deposits while the copper price was high, and would then have stayed in business for another decade at least.
Finally, across the Middle East and Africa, from the UAE to Jordan, we have deployed resource conservation best practice initiatives in all our operations that have contributed to saving 3.9 billion liters of water in our company-owned operations last year, as compared to five years earlier.
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The big question, assuming the coalition runs its course to 2015, is whether the voters will give their verdict on the Liberal Democrats in that General Election and then be prepared to cast their votes the Assembly election in 2016 with more of an open mind than they did five years earlier.
In March 2013, India's Supreme Court upheld his conviction, but reduced his sentence from the earlier six years to five years.
In truth, the most radical part of Crazy Blind Date (whose name and basic concept OK Cupid toyed with in an earlier form more than five years ago) may be the way users are asked to express their satisfaction or lack thereof.
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As I mentioned earlier, in the last five years, the number of Italian craft breweries has gone from 40 to 400.
Since then the project has been delayed by at least five years, with production now expected to start no earlier than 2010.
Over five years researchers compared them to 800 women who had taken placebos earlier and elected not to take letrozole.
Five years after the long-ruling coalition was wounded in an earlier vote, its weaknesses were made more manifest: It got only 47% of the popular vote.
Former Downing Street spin doctor Lance Price, who published his diaries of the period between 1997 and 2001 earlier this year, told the committee he had waited five years before publication and - unlike many anonymous Whitehall sources - his name was "on the dust jacket".
In related news, last week McDonald's reported a 10.4% gain in monthly sales compared to a year earlier, its biggest single-month increase in more than five years.
The researchers said 71% of the respondents would prefer to live 15 years in a wheelchair than die after 10 or five years in a wheelchair - but the remaining 29% said they would prefer to die earlier rather than spend 15 years in a wheelchair.
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