And the main contributors to growth will be exports (mainly from the more prosperous coastal regions), consumption (primarily by urban residents) and investment (mainly in cities).

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It primarily explores for gold ores, mainly in Ontario, Newfoundland, and Labrador.

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In Bonn the Northern Alliance will face an array of mainly Pushtun groups, drawn primarily from the ranks of exiles rather than from the new power-brokers inside Afghanistan.

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The strike consisted of two factions: skilled technical and administration workers, mainly from Algeria's north, and unskilled drivers, primarily local Tuareg workers.

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According to Fiona Buffinton, head of Australian Education International, a government agency, about a third of the country's foreign students are motivated mainly by the hope of gaining residence, and a third primarily by the education on offer, while also nursing hopes of staying on.

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Labour's Chris Leslie warned that there might be circumstances under which the aims of the Financial Policy Committee, which primarily focuses on financial stability, clashed with those of the Monetary Policy Committee, which mainly deals with inflation-targeting, but is also obliged to take growth into account when making decisions.

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For the last few years, Twitter has mainly been a tool for tech insiders and news junkies, just as CNN initially appealed primarily to a hard-core, but limited audience of news obsessives until the start of the Gulf War, when everyone tuned in for news on the war as it broke.

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