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  • That means iPhone customers only start to become profitable for carriers about nine months after they buy the device, compared with a five- to six-month timeframe for other smartphones.

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  • He continued his recovery in Lancashire's 41-run defeat by Yorkshire in the Pro Arabian Cricket Challenge Trophy and took his tally of overs to nine in two games after previously bowling five overs against Sussex in Abu Dhabi.

    BBC: Flintoff targets Lord's comeback

  • Peter Malpas, 47, from Moulton, Northamptonshire, is serving a minimum of five years and nine months after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting a child aged under 13 and possession and distribution of indecent images of children.

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  • The company reinstated its dividend nine months ago after financial difficulties five years ago forced it to suspend quarterly payments.

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  • After slipping back to five under, I played awesome on the back nine, nailing every shot, and that almost means more to me than where I finished.

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  • Ariya Jutanugarn, the Thai 17-year-old who led after the first two rounds, made five birdies on the back nine in a 66 to surge into a tie for third with Ilhee Lee, who closed with a career-best 67.

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  • When people hear how I quit my job as a lawyer after six years of corporate work, they assume I burned out and fled the nine-to-five (or, more accurately, the nine-to-midnight), leaving contracts, negotiations and lawsuits behind.

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  • Although Djokovic went into the match with a 10-7 lead in head-to-heads, Murray had beaten Djokovic five out of eight times in tiebreakers, and that improved to six of nine after four unforced errors by Djokovic to end the first set.

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  • Emboldened by winning a majority in the House of Commons in May after leading a Conservative minority government for five years, Mr Harper has unveiled a bill to limit Senate terms to nine years and to encourage the provinces to hold elections for senators.

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