The volume of other personal mail, meanwhile, has fallen by a third in five years.
The 17-nation euro-zone economy is expected to contract in 2013 for the third time in five years.
The UK's economy shrank by 0.3% in the last three months of 2012, and if it contracts during the first quarter of this year then it will be back in recession for the third time in five years.
The UK economy contracted by 0.3% in the final three months of 2012, and if it shrinks in the first quarter of this year, the UK will enter its third recession in five years.
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If the UK economy does contract in the first three months of the year, it will have fallen back into recession for the third time in five years.
The UK is at risk of slipping back into recession for the third time in five years, with growing contracting in the final quarter of 2012.
The second-seeded Cardinals won their third title in five years by taking charge with a 27-3 run after James Southerland's 3-pointer put Syracuse (26-9) up 45-29 with 15:48 to play.
Naved, who has played nine Tests and 62 one-day internationals for Pakistan, took 50 wickets last summer to help Sussex win the County Championship for the third time in five years.
The UK economy contracted by 0.3% in the last three months of 2012, and if it shrinks in the first three months of this year, then it will have fallen back into recession for the third time in five years.
Carter converted from the touchline and that proved to be the outside-half's final act as he left his stage, presumably to keep him fresh for next weekend's match against Ireland in Dublin as the All Blacks chase a third Grand Slam in five years.
He said he will push forward the reform of streamlining government functions and cut the existing 1, 700 administrative approval items by at least one-third in the coming five years.
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Ending price declines would give companies and households more incentive to borrow and help the world's third-largest economy pull out of its latest recession, its third in the past five years.
In twenty-five years a third of them would be dead, in fifty years two-thirds, in a hundred all of them.
An Open and US Masters champion back in the 1980s, Lyle has not won in a decade and third spot represented his best finish in five years.
It was Western Province's third Currie Cup win in five years and their second in succession.
While the number of venture-capital deals declined both nationwide and in Silicon Valley for the five years that ended in the third quarter of 2012, they rose 52% in New York state, albeit off a smaller base, the development agency estimates.
The strongest evidence of a continued chill is the sharp fall in share buybacks, which accounted for around one-third of growth in earnings per share in the five years before the credit crunch.
Walmart currently sells firearms in about a third of its locations after a decision five years ago to eliminate departments in many stores.
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David Cameron will arrive in Birmingham this weekend for his third party conference in the city in the space of five years.
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He is particularly damning of the coalition's decision to go along with Labour's planned one-third cut in net public investment over five years.
In the last five years combined, they had the third-best ERA in the majors but ranked just 17th in runs scored.
In Annals of Neurology, they say stroke rates in five to 44-year-olds rose by about a third in under 10 years.
The Bourke region's population decline over the five years to 2007 was the third highest in Australia.
Yet a third partner might want to pursue aggressive growth with the intent to attract a buyer in five years.
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The company showed a tiny operating profit for the third quarter of 2001 (its first in a year) on the highest revenues in five years.
Adam Gilchrist was trapped lbw by Kyle Mills on the third ball of the match and Chris Martin celebrated his first one-day match in five years by snapping up Simon Katich in his second over.
It's the third consecutive season these two teams are facing each other in the playoffs and the fourth time in five years.
Third-party sellers are 36% of all Amazon unit sales and projected to be 55% in five years.
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Over the past five years, the higher seed has won 65% of the matches in the third and fourth round.
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