All three companies also have a long tail of steady-earning but generally less profitable local brands.
Whoever captures the customer will enjoy a long tail of future book purchases.
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It seems likely that this recession will have a long tail in terms of its impact on jobs and housing.
Beneath these is a long tail of smaller operators, many of them online, from the legitimate to the thoroughly dodgy.
While this business clearly has a long tail, newer entrants appear to be having trouble coming up with regular deals to offer.
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And in a world where leadership is becoming more and more of a long tail phenomenon, Natascha is perhaps the most important kind of leader.
It has what is known as a long tail - it takes several years for claims to materialise on policies taken out several years previously.
Moreover, the curve was skewed to the right, with a long tail, however slender, of patients who lived many years longer than the eight-month median.
There is almost always a long tail of possibility, however thin.
Although that is a higher proportion than in developed economies, it still leaves a long tail of smaller firms which may be less well run.
There is a long tail in regards to people doing things differently, you will always get the leaders who look for something more than IT is providing.
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Today, social media has the potential to create a long tail effect, extending the life of expensive campaigns, ultimately improving ROI, and along the way creating and deepening the relationship with the audience.
Indeed, Formula One is increasingly made up of a trio of leading teams, a handful of middle-rankers, and a long tail of slower cars which somehow cling on, helped by the largesse from Mr Ecclestone.
It sported broad wings and feathers like a bird, but it also had three-fingered claws, sharp teeth and a long bony tail similar to a dinosaur.
"We had always expected a gap-filler with typically intermediate features such as a moderately elongate tail -- neither long nor short -- but the strange thing about Darwinopterus is that it has a head and neck just like that of advanced pterosaurs, while the rest of the skeleton, including a very long tail, is identical to that of primitive forms, " he said.
The algorithm was revolutionary to start: the results were spectacular along a thrillingly long tail, results appeared before you could blink and the home page was a minimalist marvel. (Still is.) If you didn't live online through those years you might not naturally imagine the love and admiration Google received across all online demographics.
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The dinosaur had a very long tail, up to twice the length of its body.
In other words, there is a persistent long tail opportunity in business software.
They also have a long revenue tail: With many trusts set to run for 20 years or more, sellers can look forward to decades of administration and money management fees.
The report says UK schools have had 35 years of "piecemeal reforms" and the result has been a "gentle upswing in performance", judged by international benchmarks, but also a "long tail of low achievement".
Dr. BORIS WORM (Assistant Professor, Marine Conservation Biology, Biology Department, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada): They have a huge head, a big mouth with which they can engulf their prey and then the rest of their body is a long tapering tail.
The Ornithomimids - from the Latin for "bird mimics" - superficially resembled modern-day ostriches, with a toothless beak, large eyes and long legs, but they also had a long, thick tail.
Starting from Nong Khiaw in the early morning, our guide Dhit sat quietly as we drifted around 10km downstream along the calm Nam Ou River in a narrow long-tail boat.
There is a long, thin tail of smaller companies.
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After visiting a tribal village in the morning, you'll be whisked away on a private long-tail boat to Tham Pha Thai National Park and then taken by private bus to Chiang Rai to see the Golden Triangle.
It needs to move money out of the door fast, get it quickly to where it can do most good and not carry with it a tail of long-term spending commitments.
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The food is very good, and the staff makes mealtime magic of its own, staging beach barbecues and, if the tide is low at dusk, drinks and dinner on a long, scorpion-tail sandbar way out in Copperfield Bay.
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It already has a 64, 000km-long tail of dust and gas that will become visible to the naked eye later in the year - a trail scientists will study closely.
For me, the long tail for a patient like her is three to four years.
My belief is there is a mirror-image of the long tail that is equally important to those wanting to understand the process of innovation.
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