But the firm suggests that figure had dropped to less than 4% by the end of last year.
By the end of last year more than 76m smart meters had been installed worldwide.
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But by the end of last year, only 522, 000 loans had been permanently modified.
By the end of last year, Apple's share of the smart phone market was 27%.
By the end of last summer, production had risen by another half million bpd.
By the end of last month, the figure had risen to more than 12, 000.
And by the end of last year, Scotland's incidence of it was slightly lower than the UK level.
By the end of last year, U.S. CO2 emissions were already down 10.5 percent from the 2005 baseline.
By the end of last week, though, both indexes once again backed down from these psychologically significant technical levels.
But by the end of last year it was down to 93% and it is set to continue falling.
Only 1.1% of these loans had gone sour by the end of last year, according to China's banking regulator.
By the end of last year, they had climbed to 7.4%, and to 8.7% by the end of June.
By the end of last year, the Railways Ministry had overseen the construction of 8, 358 kilometers of high-speed rail track.
By the end of last year, Zoom had enough computer power to open its search engine to the masses--and to process credit-card payments.
After declining to virtually zero by the end of last year, infrastructure spending is only growing at a little over 12 percent today.
Japan is the world's second largest wireless market after the United States, with 58 million mobile phone users by the end of last year.
By the end of last year, a little over half a million people in developing countries had begun to get access to anti-AIDS drugs.
By the end of last week, the yield on Spain's 10-year bond hovered around 7%, the financial equivalent of being admitted to intensive care with a raging fever.
Of the 6m people in the developing world in need of anti-retroviral drug therapy, less than 4% were receiving the necessary drugs by the end of last year.
These forces, including the U.S. "surge" forces, all of which had redeployed by the end of last summer, broke Taliban momentum and trained additional Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF).
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Numbers of livestock have fallen by 40%, partly thanks to an epidemic of screw worms that had spread to two-thirds of Iraq's provinces by the end of last year.
The team was scheduled to submit its preliminary findings by the end of last month, but was hampered by the fact that it was not allotted proper office accommodation for two months.
Despite the Internet's importance to the local economy, by the end of last year nearly a third of the schools in Santa Clara and San Mateo still lacked high-speed connections to the Net.
According to the Federation of Korean Industries, the debts of the four biggest chaebol stood at 139.6 trillion won by the end of last year, down by only 15% from 165.1 trillion won at the end of 1998.
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More restrictive company law and a police amnesty for companies that come clean have shrunk the number of active sokaiya from 6, 800 in 1982 to 600 by the end of last year, according to the National Police Agency.
Israel has said it hopes to withdraw the last of its soldiers from Lebanon by the end of the week, turning control of the last captured areas over to international forces and the Lebanese army.
The seals had been washed ashore on the Isle of Man and were then flown to the zoo by private jet at the end of last year.
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By the end of the last century the guarded optimism of Gibb and Smith had faded.
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