• Some banks might require local identification cards or the local equivalent of a Social Security number.

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  • Some resources, such as digital storage, are actually more expensive in the cloud than their local equivalent.

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  • Others could get much larger bonuses--the local equivalent of six months of pay.

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  • Further, they noted, federal prosecution is costlier than the local equivalent.

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  • Brazilian players cost European clubs less than local footballers of equivalent talent.

    ECONOMIST: A growing export trade in soccer players

  • Twenty-one thousand Pakistani rupees for a four-kilo package, the farmer said, and he harvested three to four kilos per jirib (a local land measurement equivalent to about half an acre).

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  • The local hospital, where I received attention on more than one occasion, never reported anything untoward to the local police or the equivalent of social services.

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  • The opening of the new centre on Monday will see a group of local children swimming the equivalent length of the English Channel to raise money for charity.

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  • The thought of a discount equivalent to the local sales tax seemed to generate quite the crowd.

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  • Local politicians grumble that its minarets will rise higher than the floodlights of the neighbouring football stadium, a secular city's equivalent of the local cathedral.

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  • For each new home, the Department for Communities and Local Government pays an amount equivalent to the national average for its council tax band every year for six years.

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  • If the cost of cigarettes is roughly equivalent in the local Mom and Pop store as it is on the reservation, the incentive to travel to Seneca Nation (or other tribe) territory is arguably lost.

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  • According to Gianfranco Viesti, an economics professor from Bari, the fiscal rigour needed for Italy to qualify for monetary union has led to cuts in public spending in the mezzogiorno equivalent to roughly 5% of local output.

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  • The funding currently covers the equivalent of two and a half Unison local branch salaries, as well as use of offices and a social club at Shire hall.

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  • Of the 129 local authorities that provided information, nearly two-thirds said the equivalent funds would still be dedicated to school food, but one in five said there was no commitment to ringfence the money in future and one in 10 had not yet decided.

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  • Under the Concordat between local authorities and the Scottish government, councils agreed to pay kinship carers an amount equivalent to that received by foster carers.

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  • Chancellor George Osborne has urged local authorities to use existing powers enabling them to build on Green Belt land if an equivalent area of land elsewhere is brought into the Green Belt.

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  • Moreover, further cuts on local-currency (yuan) deposit rates are feasible, even though they are already lower than equivalent dollar-deposit rates.

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  • If your agent knows the local rental market, he or she will be comfortable telling you what it would cost to rent equivalent housing nearby.

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  • The total tax burden (federal, state and local) on the American people today is the highest it's ever been -- the equivalent of 32% of the economy.

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  • Pretty much the equivalent of being a freelance worker today, the free agent can still work at the local coffeehouse or laundry cleaners, both of which will still be around according to Hiemstra.

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  • It may be, says Roland Bryan of Associated, that this is the equivalent of small talk at a cocktail party, and that people will eventually get down to local politics.

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  • "If nanotechnology maintains its current pace of development, it will give birth to a computer that has the information processing capacity equivalent to every human brain combined by 2060, " he was quoted as saying in a local newspaper.

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