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Figures released today point to the passing of an export-led boomlet that helped the economy, the world's second largest, to expand last spring and summer.

Britain is the fourth largest supplier of arms to Chad and the second largest to Sudan, both officially classified as "countries of concern" by the Foreign Office.

Wang told reporters that he expects China's box office, currently the world's second largest, to take the top spot from the US by 2018.

Wang is suffused with optimism: he told reporters that he expected China's cinema audience, currently the world's second largest, to take the top spot from the US by 2018.

Pushing forward with a radical restructuring of its troubled banking sector, South Korea ordered four major banks, including Hanvit Bank, its second largest, to merge early in 2001 under a state-run holding company.

Army and police troops took up positions today in the center of this city, the country's second largest, to fire on ethnic Albanian rebels in the surrounding hills for a fourth consecutive day, leaving the streets mostly deserted and shops closed.

Some economists have begun comparing Germany's economy, the world's third largest, to Japan's, the second largest.

Mr. Davis is fond of boasting that under his leadership California's economy has risen from the world's seventh largest to fifth, passing France last year.

While Mr. López Obrador's popularity catapulted it in 2006 from the third largest to the second largest party in Congress, the party now stands to lose many of the seats it picked up then.

Britain is Europe's largest arms exporter to Uganda and the third largest to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, both CAR neighbours.

In May 2007, Saudi Minister of Oil and Mineral Resources Ali al-Naimi announced that Saudi Arabia would invest $75 billion to move from the world's tenth largest to third largest producer of petrochemicals by 2015.