He said if the Sun praised him it may have been to make then Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott look bad in comparison.

BBC: UK

As a country gets richer it will automatically de-emphasise agriculture, not least because other sectors grow in comparison, and it can then afford food imports if necessary.

ECONOMIST: Growth and geography

Then there's communications bandwidth, once a crawler in comparison.

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It can certainly be an uphill battle, with a user base that pales in comparison to the iOSes ad Androids of the world -- and then there's the fact that the OS hasn't actually launched in the States yet.

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What the survey shows is how well those European companies that have made it have done, surviving on what in comparison to U.S. startups are if not starvation rations, then a diet of tuna sandwiches and value yogurt.

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