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Stimulus funds added close to $1.5 billion over two years, but now annual spending has receded to about $1.2 billion.

Oil from the Kirkuk fields has added close to 300,000 barrels a day in income to Kurdish revenue streams.

The manufacturing sector, after shedding 2.2 million jobs between December, 2007, and January, 2010, has since added close to eight hundred thousand positions.

The final US jobs report of 2016 recorded 178,000 new jobs added, close to economists' expectations of 180,000 for November.

During Rudolph W. Giuliani's years as mayor, the Parks Department has added close to 2,000 acres of parkland, the equivalent of two new Central Parks and one new Prospect Park.

It added close to 1.2 million new customers, in 2011.

"We're adding close to 5,000 people in India this year," says Mr Narayanan.

Digital motion correction adds about $100 to the price of a camcorder, Mr. Weir said, but the optical correction adds close to $300.

"We are still adding close to 170,000 people, and while that is below what we expected, it's still quite formidable," Mr. Salvo said.

However, Warner Bros has the final Hobbit movie, The Battle of Five Armies, hitting cinemas in December, a film which would be expected to add close to $1bn to its total.

The company reported that its core retailing business, called Marketplaces, still shows strong growth, adding close to 4 million users during the period, bringing the total to 116 million, a lift of 13 percent.