The World Bank estimates the global market for virtual game goods is around $3 billion, making it an attractive option for gamers in less developed countries.

据世界银行估计，虚拟游戏商品的全球市场约为30亿美元，对于欠发达国家的玩家来说，这是一个充满吸引力的选择。

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The vaccine was developed, from start to finish, in less than a decade, in record time, and at about one-tenth of the cost usually needed to bring a product through development to the market.

该疫苗的开发从一开始到完成用了不到十年时间，这是创纪录的，在花费方面是通常情况下一个产品从开发到走向市场所需经费的大约十分之一。

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Meanwhile, as Pfizer had to conduct long safety studies to deal with the lung capacity issue, insulin shots got less painful as companies like Becton, Dickinson developed less painful needles and drug firms started to market insulin in easy-to-use pre-packaged "pen" devices.

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For all those reasons, the market for municipal funds is roughly 0.2 percent of the corporate bond market, and less developed than those in emerging economies like South Africa and the Philippines, claimed Nagarajan Narasimhan, senior director of CRISIL Ratings.

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But eventually economic development, new technology and the increasing saturation of the banking market in developed parts of Brazil should make this less of a problem.

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