Three years ago, at the height of a property bubble, there were about 360, 000 such households in Hong Kong.
Most Tory MPs also realise that a block-the-fire-station blackmail strategy, unleashed at the height of a global economic crisis, is risky.
Colonial Mutual Life, one of Australia's oldest insurance companies, bought the site on which the eyesores stand at the height of a property boom in the late 1980s and pulled down a strip of crude, modern buildings.
The robot, standing at about the height of a person, can also carry meals to residents.
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Its terrain-following radar can be linked to the aircraft's autopilot - so the plane itself can follow the contours of the landscape at a height of just 100 ft (30 m).
At the very least, there is a growing chance that a record rally in corporate debt that began at the height of the credit crisis in 2008 may be entering a new, uncertain phase.
The authors of the study look at changes in the weight and height of a large group of Americans aged over 50 between 1992 and 2004.
But when we met at the restaurant I wanted to read him something I'd written in a March column, at the height of "Linsanity, " about a 1970 Knicks-Baltimore Bullets playoff game I attended.
Locals noticed that it was at the time that talk of a right of abode was at its height that, for the first time, a fence went up about the American base.
On a September night in 2008, at the height of the financial crisis, I remarked to a colleague that the tidal wave of news that was then beginning to flood Washington would not likely recede until the next summer.
The Farm Crisis Network - which provides a helpline and practical and pastoral support - and the Rural Stress Information Network were receiving hundreds of calls a day at the height of the outbreak.
Yields on the shortest-term treasury bills, which had jumped to around 130% at the height of the panic, fell back to a still high 50%.
The current Governor, Sir Mervyn King, fell out with the previous government over his refusal to supply liquidity to the banking system at the height of the 2008 crisis until cornered by a coalition of BOE and Treasury officials.
While working towards his graduate degree he had the good fortune of landing a summer job at EA during the height of the gaming explosion in Seattle.
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For the time being, the Kiwis can enjoy a bowler at the height of his powers, or at the level his body will allow.
The Met Office's "feels like temperature" takes into account expected air temperature, relative humidity and the strength of the wind at around 5 feet (1.5m) - the typical height of a person's face.
This is the Mexica ruler at the height of his power, a god among gods.
Hours later at the height of the rescue operation a second, more violent blast resulted in the deaths of another 53 men.
Mr Miliband's intellectual ability is widely admired but his presentational skills were questioned when he allowed himself to be photographed - at the height of the speculation over a potential coup - grinning and holding a banana.
At the height of the financial crisis a few years ago, senior staff at Barclays wanted to see Libor pushed lower too, to disguise the evidence that the bank was having a difficult time borrowing money from other banks.
In fact, while spreads have narrowed significantly from the panic levels reached at the height of the financial crisis, they still have a ways to go before reaching what I would consider to be fully valued (about 350 basis points over treasury yields or LIBOR, respectively).
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His family programme, Jim'll Fix It, drew in huge audiences and the programme received 20, 000 letters a week at the height of its popularity.
The software in the four-seater Piper Warrior light plane will allow Mr Cunningham to receive constant updates on the plane's height, position and speed at the touch of a button.
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In Massachusetts, the National Guard and Worcester emergency workers teamed up to deliver a baby at the height of the storm at the family's home.
The aircraft is believed to be at a height of 13, 000 feet near the top of Mount Elizabeth, part of the rugged Queen Alexandra Range.
Perched at the first midstation on the Punta Helbronner cable car at a heady height of 2, 173 metres, Rifugio Pavillon is a traditional mountain refuge with a deckchairlined terrace.
Passing now, at the height of his achievement, is a terrible thing. 43 is far too young.
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The aircraft was believed to have been flying at a height of 13, 000 feet in the rugged Queen Alexandra Range.
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That was why he confronted Rudi Dutschke, leader of Germany's students, on a trailer in Freiburg at the height of the unrest of 1968 (pictured above): not hiding away like Raymond Aron at the Sorbonne, but vigorously debating, professor with student, as he did all his life.
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