That number is in stark contrast to the thousands of cars, buses and ambulances left stranded last month after cleanup crews struggled to plow streets days after the storm.
Like the overall U.S. figures, that number represents a big contrast with the previous quarter (4Q 2010), when Verizon posted 9% growth in text messaging use, as well as the year-ago quarter (1Q 2010), when Verizon saw a 34% increase in text messaging.
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By contrast, the number of people using Skype to instant message each other grew over the period.
By contrast, the number of registered Republicans dropped by almost 5% and the number of Democrats by almost 14%.
In contrast, the number of rural gulls in the UK have declined significantly in recent decades, according to the RSPB.
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The Sandinista party has won a decisive number of victories in stark contrast to what public opinion polls have indicated.
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Only one GP has a MA degree, in contrast to the large number of BA degrees.
By contrast, the average number of earners in the top fifth of households was 2.0.
By contrast, AmEx cardholders number somewhere north of 50 million as of 2012.
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Interestingly enough, this approach is in contrast to a growing number of cloud operators that have been experimenting with freemium models and cut-rate approaches.
By contrast, half that number of people were killed in 2005.
By contrast, a small number of cases had a clear secondary prevention indication, but the records for the earlier cardiac arrest or VT event were at another hospital.
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In contrast, a fixed number of jobs exists on active major league rosters, with only 25 baseball players permitted per team or 750 players total in the major leagues.
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Let's face it, consumers eying an HDTV are looking at the pricetag just as often, if not more often, than the picture quality, contrast ratio, or number of HDMI inputs.
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In contrast, Samsung has a bewildering number of different models that, viewed together, make almost no sense at all to the casual observer.
Kiefer, by contrast, breezed effortlessly past the world number seven in front of a hugely partisan crowd.
By contrast, the current estimate of the number of protein-coding genes in the human genome is 23, 000.
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Mark Makepeace, FTSE chief executive said the number of changes announced on Wednesday were in marked contrast to the review held a year ago when a record nine changes were made to the FTSE-100.
By contrast, those anchored at the ridiculously high number of 140 guessed that Gandhi was closer to 67.
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In contrast, try dialling a decades-old telephone number, and see how far you get.
By contrast, in natural populations of fruit flies the number of copies of copia is low around 20 per individual.
By contrast, in modern America there have been a number of news stories of late highlighting the rise of the female breadwinner.
The catheterization involves intravenous administration of contrast dye which could potentially damage the kidneys in a small number of patients.
The world number one's comfortable day against the rising Briton was in stark contrast to many of her seeded colleagues, three of whom crashed out on Tuesday.
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By contrast, the impact of the 2005 drought, spread over a number of years, was calculated as a release of five billion tonnes.
Even so, fatal accidents, measured by the number of flights, are commonest in Africa and there, in contrast to the rest of the world, no sign of improvement is yet detectable.
By contrast, humans kill around 100 million sharks every year - a number that has ballooned in recent years because of the enormous demand for shark fins to make shark fin soup.
Mexico City, by contrast, has enjoyed a falling crime rate and the introduction of a number of successful social programs.
In contrast to the national news, the last few days has seen a number of local firms announcing large job losses.
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