Neither made allowances in their calendar for the World Cup, which started slightly earlier this time in a failed attempt to defeat Asia's rainy season.
But many players - some of whom have been overseas for the entire four months - will be relishing the prospect of a slightly earlier return to England.
"And it has allowed quite a number of staff who would have been considering retirement over the next few years to take advantage of that slightly earlier than they would have otherwise been able to, " he added.
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Mr Berlusconi's People of Freedom party withdrew its support from the government on Thursday, and Mr Berlusconi confirmed he would lead his party into next year's elections - now on course to be held slightly earlier than expected.
It helps that he plays the same role for England as he does for Chelsea, although he did feature in a slightly different position earlier in the season under Carlo Ancelotti.
This was lifted for senior personnel and eased slightly for other personnel earlier this month.
Stocks in the chip-making sector recovered slightly from the panic earlier in the week over their closed plants in Japan.
The county council report looked at the impact of construction traffic on the A12 and predicted it would be slightly reduced compared to earlier studies.
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For the rest of 2012 and first half of 2013, cumulative advance bookings, excluding its Costa business, are down from a year earlier on slightly lower prices.
According to studies by Los Angeles-based E-Poll Market Research, which provides appeal rankings for more than 3, 000 celebrities, 70% of the U.S. population would use the term "overexposed" to describe Hilton, up slightly from a year earlier.
Chaturvedi, said on the sidelines of an industry conference that India's imports from Iran could be 14.5 million-15 million metric tons in the current financial year ending March 31, slightly lower than an earlier target of 15.5 million tons.
One thing that Google is stressing and makes it slightly different from its other earlier attempts in the space is that in the past, Google has just bought space from newspapers or magazines and then auctioned them off.
Earlier today yields dropped slightly amid talk of Italian bond purchases by the ECB, but they were back on the rise later in the day.
Boys, too, are entering puberty at an earlier stage, albeit still slightly later than girls.
Though as passionate as the band's earlier work, Challengers feels slightly more wistful and melancholic.
Beyond the eyes, Furby looks largely similar to earlier units, if "slightly larger, " according to Hasbro's measurements.
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Now that the Greek parliament has passed the very unpopular austerity measures the world market place is looking at other matters, such as some recent better economic data coming out of Japan earlier this week and some slightly better U.S. economic data Thursday.
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Sister metal palladium has held up better than platinum, falling only slightly after hitting a 16-month high earlier.
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While we expect gross margins (for both pharma and diagnostics) to decline going forward due to a change in product mix and pricing pressure, the decline may not be as steep as we had earlier anticipated and so we have slightly revised our gross margin expectation.
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After Total's share price fell sharply earlier in the week, it rebounded slightly on Friday with a 0.9% gain.
India's budget gap stands at 5.2% of gross domestic product this fiscal year ending on March 31, slightly lower than the 5.3% projected earlier by the finance ministry.
About an hour earlier, police believe, Dorner shot and slightly wounded a Los Angeles police officer who was heading to an assignment to protect someone connected to Dorner's threats, police said.
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The latest figures suggest there were 501, 000 more people in work in the UK in the second quarter of 2012 than there were two years earlier, when our economy is supposed to have been slightly larger than it is now.
This was slightly lower than the 161, 400 households in this situation a year earlier.
Petersburg have begun to slip slightly and hotel occupancies fell 14% in November from the year-earlier period, the highest monthly percentage decline in about six years, according to Smith Travel Research Inc.
TEPCO, the company that operates the failed reactors in Fukushima that at the time caused one of the biggest nuclear accidents in history, said it detected slightly tainted "rainwater flowing out into the ocean" from the site earlier in the week.
The U.S. dollar index is trading slightly lower early Friday but is trading near its recent high after solid gains posted earlier this week.
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Earlier in the evening, Dean congratulated Kerry and Edwards, a North Carolina senator, when slightly more than 40 percent of Iowa precincts had reported results.
The show earlier today continued on that trend of youthful, layered textures and interesting fabrics but darkened it slightly, giving us forest-colored wool peacoats, ivory shearling, black denim, motorcycle coats and black fur trimmed vests.
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