To the modern chauvinist, having a central bank ranks in importance up there with having a national flag.
Carmina Burana ranks up there with Beethoven's Fifth as a perennial favorite among concert-goers.
None of these, I concede, are up there with Fred Astaire, but, then, who is?
But one night I went up there with my torch and there he was.
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All in all, the Internet may not be quite up there with the internal combustion engine.
On the kitsch scale, many are right up there with Elvis paintings on black velvet.
We are still way up there with the best of the best in the world in sport.
Last year, Linear reported gross margins of 77.7%, up there with the likes of Oracle and Microsoft.
The schoolteacher without adequate support, the domestic worker without rights, they won't be up there with me.
Thanking a sponsor, say Home Depot, is right up there with kudos to wives and kids.
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"Winning would be absolutely massive - right up there with the Grand Slams Scotland has won, " said Lineen.
The 36-year-old said winning the award was "up there with being elected to referee the Rugby Word Cup".
So it's a big achievement for her and she's going to be up there with tennis star Goran Ivanisevic.
In the dry, we are up there with the best, now we must sort out fixing the damaged parts.
"It's enormous and will be right up there with in 2005, " he said.
Some will test umpires, so you don't want to put a fairly new person up there with less experience.
Not quite up there with the first Catholic president or the first African-American, but certainly heading in that direction.
Even old-timers had to admit, in terms of natural talent, he was up there with the very best they'd seen.
He compared it to famous Globetrotter tricks: "This is right up there with the water and the confetti, " he said.
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Divorce is one of the most stressful things an individual will go through, right up there with moving and death.
Det Insp Pete Broome, from Lancashire Police, said it was "up there with the very worst" case he had dealt with.
Why can't he be up there with the likes of the Rolling Stones playing to audiences in excess of a million?
"I've seen a few poor performances since I've been here but that will be up there with the worst of them, " Moyes said.
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"Right up there with salary is time off with families, " says Diane Thom, human resources manager at Comerica Inc. in Auburn Hills, Mich.
Musical director Rob Smith said the band was "really pleased" to win the accolade which showed Wonderbrass was "up there with the professionals".
Right up there with the collapse of Enron is the degree to which tech giant Apple is hated by so many people.
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If fame and messaging power is now (at least in part) measured in Twitter followers, then Southwest is right up there with Kevin Smith.
American Samoa Gov. Togiola Tulafono, speaking from Hawaii, said Tuesday's quake ranked "right up there with some of the worst" disasters on the island.
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Battery life for notebooks has always rated as a key purchase criteria for notebooks, right up there with screen size, price, weight and brand.
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He and a younger brother, Jonathan, wound up there with their Parkinson's afflicted mother, two small children and an adult cousin who has developmental delays.
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