Six year old Wigdan woke up to bullets and shrapnel close to her bed.

Superficially this looks about right to close the output gap if it is spent this year .

Management continues to pay close attention to the amounts recorded as unliquidated obligations throughout the year.

However, the defence is now presenting its evidence and will close its case early next year.

He commended UNRWA for ending the year 2004 with a budget surplus, but expressed concern that the current year might close with a deficit.

Every seven years, I close it for one year to pursue some little experiments, things that are always difficult to accomplish during the regular working year.

The emerging consensus among economists is that growth next year will be close to the trend rate of 2.5 .

Instead, GDP has collapsed, with the Spanish and Italian economies expected to contract by close to 2 this year.

The Court must have a solid financial basis as its business came to a close over the following year.

Only this year, the city administration has started to close down some brothels because of their ties to criminal organizations.

Besides capacity building, training activities are growing steadily. Close to 10,000 participants benefit from UNITAR workshops and seminars each year, while close to 17,000 persons follow the Institute's distance learning and e learning programmes.

The death of 22 year old Alive in Baghdad correspondent Ali Shafeya is one that has hit particularly close to home.

Growth may be close to zero by the end of this year, as fiscal austerity kicks in and stock markets fall.

Another landmine, close to one of the towers and also to the local school, killed a 17 year old Awá boy .

TEL AVIV Syria s crisis is now a year old, with close to 10,000 people, mostly civilians, dead and no end in sight.

Until mid 2007, the Target accounts were close to zero, but since then, they have grown by about 100 billion per year.

Indeed, publicly traded European companies had excess cash holdings of 750 billion ( 1 trillion) in 2011, close to a 20 year high.

Similarly, a Chinese sex manual written close to the year 600 stated that only the first five days following menstruation were fertile.

In the euro zone and Japan, the outlook for 2009 and 2010 is even worse, with growth close to zero even next year.

I remember a year spent in a mountainous Beirut suburb, away from school and from an apartment untenably close to the Green Line.

There were some successes last year, the most important being that our foreign debt, which restricts our economic sovereignty, is close to being paid off.

As Al Jazeera's Latin America bureau chief, the Syrian born Palestinian journalist developed a close relationship with Chavez during her 10 year stay in Caracas.

During the two year cycle, close to 1,000 participants attended more than 30 courses in the Learning Centre as part of the capacity building activities.

The Turkish Government declared 2005 the Year of Africa and looks forward to further developing close relations and cooperation with the countries of the continent.

Towards the end of the year, we were close to meeting them for food, nutrition and health services, though not for water, sanitation or shelter.

I know they were close, but not that close.

Many academic studies have found that the rate of convergence tends to be about 2 per year. That is, each year, an economy tends to close 2 of the gap between its actual and potential income levels.

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There are many topical aspects of the law of the sea and international fisheries that are worthy of our close attention, but their prominence is only obscured by our collective insistence on repeating the same things year after year.

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Meanwhile, interest rates on bank loans to nonfinancial enterprises remain close to 7 , despite having fallen slightly over the last year. And, in the second quarter of this year, the annualized interest rate on loans to small nonfinancial corporations surpassed 25 .

A few months ago, a 40 year old woman came to an emergency room in a hospital close to where I live, and she was brought in confused.

In 2011, China contributed 1.3 trillion in additional GDP to the world, the equivalent of creating another Greece every 12.5 weeks, or close to another Spain every year.

MINUSTAH and the National Police are working in close collaboration to disarm the gangs that existed in Haiti, and during the past year they have made noteworthy progress.

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The aim should be that by the close of Poland s EU presidency at the end of that year, all the countries will have completed screening and achieved candidate status.

Comment by the Administration. UNFPA was able to close its accounts and publish a set of financial statements for the 2004 financial year by the end of May 2005.

Meanwhile, eight new railway lines, covering 200 kilometers and with a daily capacity of close to four million people, have become operational this year, alongside 60 kilometers of bus lines.

Remarkably, my research shows that manufacturing industries tend to close the gap with the technology frontier at the rate of about 3 per year regardless of policies, institutions, or geography.