The advertiser has two variableto contend with(1) the sheer number of eyeballs or ears that a particular advertising strategy will reach, and (2) within a set, the number of eyeballs and ears actually interested in the product being advertised.

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The sheer weight alone (5478 pounds) makes a Bentley easier to handle than a slimmer, leaner friskier sports car (3946 on the Ferrari FF).

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That experience, of course, is not as unusual as the sheer number of board seats (a total of 39) that these six individuals occupy.

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His first feature, the 1983 erotic vampire mood piece "The Hunger, " ended up a relative anomaly (except in sheer style) to such high-octane thrill machines as "Top Gun" (1986), "Revenge" (1990), "The Last Boy Scout" (1991), "True Romance" (1993), "Crimson Tide" (1995), "Enemy of the State" (1998), "Man on Fire" (2004), "Domino" (2005), "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3" (2009) and "Unstoppable" (2010).

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Ms. NICOLE ANDREWS (FEMA): From impacts on local infrastructure, sheer magnitude of making available a mobile home site, a piece of land where we can do this kind of construction to, you know, the simple fact of just not wanting hurricane evacuees in your backyard.

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The major obstacles to broadband adoption identified by the FCC were noted as cost, computer illiteracy, and a sheer lack of awareness about the benefits the web offers (outside of cute kitties).

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If you want to buck the trend and go with tradition, a reasonably priced ARPG with this many character options would be a huge hit (if the rest of the game was good) and the sheer number of classes to choose from would greatly improve replay value.

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But, as Pogue points out, if you're the target customer for these a bird-watcher (or maybe a trainspotter?) image quality matters less than just the sheer ability to capture what you're seeing in real-time.

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