Under current policies the mean retirement age by 2050 will still be less than 65, barely higher than it was after the second world war.
In truth the elephant is only a corporate logo, but the reality of marrying the Internet with a traditional building products company in a battered, backward economy is barely less difficult than the image.
Barely 5ft 9ins and less than 13 stone, he's a midget in a land of giants, but what he lacks in size he more than makes up for with mouth, a constant chatterbox on and off the field, fired by a perceived sense of injustice at the way his country has been treated by the rugby elite.
We had barely crossed Dartmouth Street, less than a block from the finish, when we were shaken by the first explosion.
Thanks to his caring attitude and unrelenting tenacity (I think he badgered Interpol until they got sick of him) she was a free (though barely alive) woman in less than a year.
You have countries, like Finland and Slovakia, that are entirely dependent on Russian gas not only paying two very different prices, but also paying less than many countries, like Poland, that get barely 50% of their gas from Russia.
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Barely 10 percent of them will pay less than 20 percent.
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Many say they are barely working at all - certainly a lot less than they would like.
But once one gets behind the relatively small urban core, the overall density is barely 2, 200 per square mile, less than half San Jose or Los Angeles, hardly a fifth that of Tokyo and not much more than Atlanta, the least dense major city in the world with more than 2.5 million residents.
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The overall correlation we arrived at between pay level and job satisfaction was just .15. (For comparison, the correlation between typical human height and weight is .44, and the correlation between IQ scores in identical twins is .86.) This suggests that within an organization, those who make more money are barely more satisfied than those who make much less.
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The gradual appreciation of the yuan against the U.S. dollar may also have added to concern among exporters, theoretically making Chinese products less attractive, though its pace has been gradual (barely more than 5 percent against the U.S. dollar in one year).
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Today, this group represents barely 11% of total workers and has declined to less than 7% of the private sector.
Barely making ends meet and hearing she was earning 14 times less than her co-host, Joe Scarborough, was depressing and painful.
Barely one Masai in ten can read, which leaves the tribe less than ideally placed to take advantage of the information age.
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How did it pirouette from just barely producing 28nm chips in volume to nailing a 14nm node in less than a year?
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That is less than half what Louisiana spends on inmates in state-run prisons, and it is barely a third of what even relatively poor states like West Virginia spend.
The Fighting Irish barely made a chip-shot field goal that provided the winning margin with less than 5 minutes remaining.
The sequester would have a barely perceptible effect on government spending except that it will fall disproportionately on defense, which is less than 20 percent of the budget.
But that's still barely a trickle in a country with total farmland under cultivation of 300 million acres, of which less than half is irrigated at all.
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