Today, that figure is 1.4 trillion, with cumulative production over the last 66 years clocking in at twenty times the original estimate.

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Clocking in at over 12 minutes, the band schizophrenically jumps from one mood to another: One moment, it's '70s AM Gold and the next, it's an instrumental soundtrack to time travel.

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He had warned everybody they should expect something special and although his semi-final involved yet another false start, he stormed to an easy victory, clocking just 0.03s over Maurice Greene's world record of 6.39s.

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Loughborough - which has a very large student population - does not rank so highly, clocking up a monthly average of just over 3, 000 illegal music downloads, the data indicates.

BBC: A glimpse at piracy in the UK and beyond

The 10- and 20-city composites gained 8.6% and 9.3% on a year-over-year basis, with every metropolitan area clocking in a second consecutive month of positive growth for the first time since early 2005.

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