In its first year, "Texas Brags" sold 100,000 copies, and by 1972, when Randolph died, sales reached close to one million.
Foreign direct investment has grown at a compound rate of 26 percent over the past five years and reached close to $48.5 billion in 2010.
Two airplanes that reached close proximity at Kennedy International Airport on Sunday were no closer than half a mile apart, the Federal Aviation Administration said on Tuesday.
The money raised for charity is serious business — a total that has reached close to $1 billion over the three decades the race has been run, according to organizers' records.
Data from the Office for National Statistics shows that bonuses in the finance and insurance sector are heading back towards levels seen during the 2006- 07 boom, when they reached close to £20bn.
As for the Internet, Mr. Taylor was heavily promoted as AOL's "Artist of the Month" for August and on Windows Media, as well as in a direct-marketing e-mail campaign that reached close to a million people.
The exodus — by truck, car, foot and horse cart — reached close to 200,000 people, forcing relief workers to erect new rows of tents in camps along the clotted road running south from the Swat Valley, the scene of the heaviest fighting.
Accumulation of H2O2 reached close to this inhibitory concentration level within 24 hours of aerobic culture.
Yesterday Facebook announced Home downloads have reached close to one million.
The picture is similar in Japan, where the growth rate has already reached close to zero.
Net migration reached close to a quarter of a million at its peak in 2010.
