"I was able to get off to a good start but it was always going to be tough, " said Federer, who secured his 27th consecutive last-eight spot in a Grand Slam to equal Jimmy Connors' record.

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That's equal to 19 million floppy disks, a banking industry record.

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In fact, thanks to Al, business aircraft flown by two-pilot, simulator-trained flight crews have achieved a standard equal to or better than the impeccable safety record set by scheduled air carriers.

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Barneveld missed out on the chance to equal Eric Bristow's record of five BDO world titles with a 7-5 loss to Klaasen on Sunday.

BBC: Raymond van Barneveld

That single project is about equal in capacity to all of the solar PV installed nationwide all of last year, a record-setting year.

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