The fact that he was able to do the same for the game in a mere 7 days is mind-boggling.

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With mere days left in the current season, ABC is down 7% in the advertiser-beloved 18 to 49-year-old demographic, according to The Nielsen Company.

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Chickens, for instance, never see daylight, but are mostly kept in long, dark, stifling sheds where they stand in their own waste, fatted with corn until they are slaughtered, in a mere forty-nine days.

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Lofty prices aside, a mere one in 200 mortgages is 90 days late in payment.

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In America teachers teach for a mere 180 days a year.

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It seems to be getting harder for mere mortals to make money in stocks these days.

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But especially in rural India, where women often go back to the fields mere days after giving birth, babies' diets are often supplemented with cow's milk and water, which exposes them to infection.

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As Amazon Prime continues to steal deals and provide its users with the pure streaming content they want, Netflix is still stuck in the days of sending discs via snail mail, forcing users to wait days and not mere seconds for their movies.

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In Kolkata a mere 2, 549% of income and 27 permits are needed, but they take 258 days to procure.

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Between 1992 and 2001, the country lost a mere nine working days a year per 1, 000 workers to strikes, against 22 days in Britain and 48 in the United States.

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