With their vast size and populations larger than one billion each, we may tend to think of them as roughly equal in other ways, but China's economy is four times larger than India's and the benefits of growth have been spread over a far larger segment of its population.
They can spread their marketing costs over a far larger volume of sales and array of products.
The consumer-electronics industry can therefore outspend the military in research and development, and spread out those costs over a far larger market: more than a billion mobile phones are sold every year, for example.
But bearing the actuarial risk of a population's medical needs is what insurers should do, since they cover a far larger and more diverse patient population over which to spread this risk.
The sporadic human infection patterns were distributed in 39 cities and occurred at various times, indicating that the virus is silently spreading in live birds over a far larger geographical area and at a far greater speed than originally thought.
This would be a far larger event.
The coalition claims a far larger membership.
Russia has a far larger problem.
That would be a far larger moment.
In earlier times it embraced a far larger area.
