This contrasts with the 4 of GNP that the US spends on its military, roughly 500 billion this year. So the US spends around thirty times more on the military than it does on peaceful development aid for the poorest countries.

Haitians were a hundred times more likely to die in an equivalent storm than Dominicans.

A life cycle analysis shows that almost half of an electric car s entire CO2 emissions result from its production, more than double the emissions resulting from the production of a gasoline powered car.

That's, and I'm going to be fair to the statisticians who talked this morning, not almost 1.5 million people a week, but almost 1.4 million people a week but I'm a journalist, and we exaggerate, so almost 1.5 million people a week, close to 70 million people a year.

Some 230 such boarding schools had been opened.

From this absolute number, nearly 60 docked at Rio de Janeiro and about 1 million entered by Valongo s Quay.

Roughly 238 million rubles ( 3.8 million) was divided up and spread across 70 different projects.

In Greece, there are nearly 1000 birds.

In this time over 6,292 were built.

The country now produces about 90 of the world's opium.

Nearly 95 of the rain falls in the winter.

Regarding online purchases, 27 per cent of EU 25 enterprises reported having placed orders over the Internet in 2004, almost double the level recorded for online sales.

Subsequent to being included on the travel ban list but prior to being added to the assets freeze list, she transferred 102,646 to her niece, Christal Dionne Elizabeth Reeves, in March 2004. In June 2004 she made a gift of a property worth 90,000 in London to the same niece.

The earthquake killed up to 200,000 people.

Nearly 20 years later, this patience has worn thin.

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I must have sneezed about 60 times just today!

The album has sold 4 million copies worldwide.

Approximately 2000 people came to see her show.

And yet it has been allowed to slow almost to a halt.

The south temperate zone extends from the Tropic of Capricorn (approximately 23.5 south latitude) to the Antarctic Circle (at approximately 66.5 south latitude).

In the 1980s, approximately 50 percent of Czechoslovakia's foreign trade was with the Soviet Union, and almost 80 percent was with communist countries.

Overall, close to 50 of Bosnia and Herzegovina is forested.

There are now about 130 such States.

Production of steel, cement, chemicals, paper, and aluminum alone account for nearly half of China s energy needs and generate nearly half of the air pollution that claims over 300,000 lives and costs the economy close to 100 billion each year.

Today, nearly 80 of Americans live in urban areas.

(Some of us have been proposing this for almost two decades.)

Tourism accounts for almost 9 of the Austrian gross domestic product.

Together, these cause about 75 of all adult cases.

Approximately 450 students from all over the world attend the festival.

Bagerhat is nearly 200 miles away from Dhaka which is the capital of Bangladesh.

Nearly one thousand species of plants with edible leaves are known.

I haven't given a talk in nearly four months.

China employs approximately 30,000 people as censors.

According to the latest statistics, around 2,000 people are HIV positive.

The literacy rate of women in Afghanistan is around 36 .

The population of the main town is approximately 10,000.

The cabin was nearly 12 ft (3.6 m) across.

Their work has made it possible to hold nearly 6 million consultations.

The lands concerned stock twice as much carbon as other lands.

But not many countries are experiencing the same level of difficulties surveys consistently show that only about 10 of Chinese SMEs finance comes from banks, while the global average doubles.

As many as 300 residents of the island group died as a result of the tsunami.

One cocoon contains approximately 1,000 yards of silk filament.

The largest blocks of the top layer were almost long and thick.

The net saving rate fell to near zero.