• Although the flagship brand, Pepsi-Cola, has always been second to Coca-Cola, the Frito-Lay division is ten times larger than its largest competitor, Diamond Foods, Inc.

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  • The drill ships and production platforms required to undertake such deep drilling are massive floating structures, much larger than the largest aircraft carriers and costing well over a half billion dollars (and close to a million dollars a day to rent).

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  • This is near an order of magnitude larger than even the largest of Hollywood blockbusters for example.

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  • The survey is some 100 times larger than the previous largest map of the web of dark matter, gathered by the Hubble telescope's Cosmic Evolution Survey, or Cosmos.

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  • With a population of 210, 000, Hialeah is Florida's fifth-largest and most heavily industrialised city, larger than two-thirds of the state's existing 67 counties.

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  • And water would be all the more exciting on Ganymede because it is the largest moon in the solar system (larger even than the planets Mercury and Pluto) and, like earth, it has a permanent magnetic field that protects part of its surface from bombardment by certain sorts of life-destroying radiation.

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  • They've done a spectacular job for their clients and we continue--we're very excited about, one, we're excited about the region and two, we're excited to have a team of that quality doing real, on the ground research throughout China, which is, now, if you sort of look at the larger Chinese market, it's the second-largest market in the world, and there just aren't--there are many more world-class U.S. teams than there are world-class Chinese teams.

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  • It is more than three times larger, when measured in sales, than the next-largest retailer, Carrefour. (Carrefour has more stores.) Wal-Mart is the largest, or among the top three largest, sellers of many categories of goods, including groceries, family clothing, toys, personal care products, home electronics, magazines and others.

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  • The United Nations peacekeeping force there, which is already its largest operation anywhere, is about to be made even larger.

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  • "It's been known to be among the largest for two decades, but it's much larger than we thought, " explained Mr Eufrasio.

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  • With 2007 as the largest birth year in U.S. history, even larger than the years of the post-World-War-II baby boom.

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  • Once a user flags a product as commercial on ArtFire, it "routes to a five-minute review to someone in customer service, " says Tony Ford, chief operating officer of ArtFire the second largest handmade marketplace in the U.S. behind much larger Etsy.

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  • Amid their angst, however, they are ignoring a more likely, and significantly larger, debt catastrophe that is about to hit the nation with the second-largest economy in the world: Japan.

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  • Larger than any previous civil aircraft, the A380 is 30 per cent bigger than the current largest jetliner, Boeing's 747-400.

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  • At Mr. Clinton's urging, the International Monetary Fund has approved the second-largest loan in its history (only the no-less-politicized Mexican bailout was larger).

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  • Ellison has bought about 98% of Lana'I, the sixth-largest island in Hawaii -- and one that's more than 1, 000 times larger than the private island that Branson owns in the British Virgin Islands.

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  • The United States may be the largest single economy in the world, but the economy of the European Union as a whole is larger.

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  • Fourth, how in April 2004, during a 55-minute-long meeting at the Securities and Exchange Commission, the largest investment banks persuaded the SEC to relax its regulatory stance and allow them to take on much larger amounts of debt.

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  • But Rothenberg said the larger goal of the games was to help grow the world's most popular sport in the world's largest economy.

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  • At this moment, we're moving forward with one of the largest relief efforts in our history -- to save lives and to deliver relief that averts an even larger catastrophe.

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