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

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

Hulu Plus added about 325,000 subs in Q2; we added close to 2 million.

This has added close to 9,400 megawatts of generating capacity outside Belgium to Tractebel's 13,200-megawatt capacity at home.

Just last month, Google added close to 1,000 new Street View locations in Asia, Europe, Latin America and North America to its maps.

This 15% increase in share of the this quarter's phone activators suggests that Verizon added close to two million mobile phone customers in the quarter.

By last summer the surge had actually added closer to 30,000 troops, making the total American troop count about 160,000.

It's a sort of added dimension that ironically results from adding close to nothing at all.

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