• "We've seen the wind shift four or five times since it started, " Walls said.

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  • "I've easily changed and tweaked the business model four or five times over the last two years, " he said.

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  • He does business development for a web company and on some days he can take the subway four or five times.

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  • The failure of that amount, or four or five times that amount, would simply have meant that the spending was too modest.

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  • An outstanding hitter has to concentrate four or five times a game.

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  • Randall says the label averages between 5, 000 and 6, 000 downloads a week, and four or five times that number in streaming plays.

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  • If they can deliver, it will encompass almost 9 million miles of fiber strands--four or five times as many as the new networks laid by big rivals like Qwest.

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  • The expense ratio of the IWD, for example, is 0.2%, compared to fees for actively managed funds that routinely have expense ratios four or five times those of an ETF.

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  • This is fairly standard throughout most of Europe but rare in England, where players usually train for up to two hours in the morning four or five times a week.

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  • "I hung up on them four or five times before I agreed to sit down and talk with them, " recalls John Sowell, chief executive of North County Vending in Vista, Calif.

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  • "In the past 20 years there have been massive increases in the numbers of children diagnosed with these disorders - as many as four or five times more, " Dr Portwood said.

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  • Teresa Jones, research manager at the hospital said orthopaedic patients would be asked to chew gum for 30 minutes, four or five times a day, following surgery until they are discharged.

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  • 'This dates from a time when people used to make bread four or five times a year, ' explains Victoria as she serves the crostas in a shallow terracotta bowl, brimming over with juicy, golden chunks.

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  • Whether done in six or 60 days, a road trip across the United States is a seminal experience, and one that is worth doing four or five times, on all the major routes.

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  • In the earlier months of this stalemate, Blondy had spotted Zwelish with or without his new family four or five times, then Doris alone with the boy in a stroller two or three others.

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  • You know how it goes: because of various loopholes and carve-outs that have built up over the years, some industries pay an average rate that is four or five times higher than others.

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  • But there are few criticisms of Baker in Austin, where passions run, if anything, four or five times as high as in Tallahassee, and most of the folks want him to turn the volume up, not down.

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  • He says this four or five times.

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  • If they can deliver, it will encompass almost 9 million miles of fiber strands--four or five times as many as the new networks laid by big rivals like Qwest (nyse: Q - news - people).

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  • Microsoft is quite confident of its leadership status on the Netbook front, boasting earlier this year of 96 percent attach rate for Windows and making other, more recent claims of return rates on Linux netbooks that are "like four or five times higher" than their Windows equivalents.

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  • It is hardly the kind of social indicator one can get worthwhile data points on (after all, how big or small a shift counts as a new career?) But a common consensus estimate is that people now are doing what counts as changing career four or five times per person.

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  • It will also be seen as progress that the 250bn euros left in the kitty of the bailout fund, the European Financial Stability Facility, is to be multiplied four or five times by the use of financial engineering - which President Sarkozy hopes will see the China involved in rescuing highly indebted countries like Italy.

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  • And expectations differ across those scholastic landscapes: A professor at a teaching-heavy liberal arts university, for example, might have four or five times the teaching load, course planning, and grading of one at a large research-oriented institution but less in the way of sweating late nights, winter breaks, and most summers over hitting research grant deadlines.

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  • Ten of the 29 patients in the study had at least one elevation in liver enzymes greater than or equal to three times the upper limit of normal, including four patients who experienced liver enzymes greater than or equal to five times the upper limit of normal.

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  • But his approach play was peerless as he found the green in regulation figures on average more than four times out of five, or 58 holes out of 72 overall (80.1%).

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  • Apple says the 2880-by-1800 resolution of the Retina Display has more than five million pixels, or over four times that of the previous MacBook Pro and over three million more than an HDTV.

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  • By the end, Clinton was operating at half-strength: In most states, Obama had double or triple the field offices she had and often four to five times the ad budget.

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  • In the past four years prices have risen from one or two times sales to as much as five times.

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  • Electronic waste currently constitutes only four percent of total municipal waste, but it is growing by almost 30 percent every five years or three times as fast as the average growth of municipal waste, according to the Commission.

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  • Central America has fallen into a Hobbesian trap: the better-off make private arrangements there are five times as many private security guards as policemen or soldiers in Guatemala, and four times as many in Honduras and therefore block efforts to levy the tax revenues necessary to strengthen the state.

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