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Unsurprisingly, the intake on its flagship MBA has dropped by close to a quarter.

And the number of illegal immigrants fell by close to a million last year, thanks in part to more energetic border enforcement.

He's reading the resolution passed by close to a hundred thousand of their fellow Ukrainians during an enormous rally in the capital on Sunday.

The consensus of scientists globally is that climate change has taken place and has contributed to the rise of sea levels by close to a foot over the last century.

Duane Reade, a 243-store chain that is being acquired by Oak Hill Capital Partners, will increase the White Plains store by close to a third, reopening with 11,700 square feet next month, a spokeswoman said.

She set off on a recent morning tailed by close to a dozen cars with members of the foreign news media, reflecting her celebrity value as the only woman in the race.

Experimental results are given for a number of 90 nm related benchmark circuits and show that this method reduces the total power by close to an order of magnitude, with no or negligible performance penalty.

Its economy has grown by close to 10% a year since 2000.

Over the first four years of this decade, the main indices showed house prices rising by close to 100%, thanks to an extraordinary and potentially dangerous borrowing binge.

TRI is found to drop the peak temperature by close to 150 K for a luminous flame (optically thicker) and 25 100 K for a nonluminous flame (optically thinner).

He did that by averaging close to a triple-double.