The government can't do much about oil imports without fuel, the economy would grind to a halt so in the past year it has tried to rein in gold demand, raising the import duty three times in a year to its current level of 6 percent.
At one point recently, annualised turnover reached 1, 100% of market capitalisation. (Compare that with America's Nasdaq market, which barely turns over more than three times in a year.) Now that more than half of all trades take place online, however, the level of average commissions has more than halved.
Borel is the only jockey to win the Derby three times in a four-year span, standing in the winner's circle in 2007 with Street Sense, 2009 with Mine That Bird and 2010 with Super Saver.
In the battle between the former world number ones, Williams needed barely an hour to beat her Belgian opponent and remains on course to win the gem-encrusted racket on offer for winning the event three times in a five-year span.
As long term interest rates declined, the three big banks were able to score trading profits in JGBs three or four times greater than a year earlier.
They know what they are signing up for even if it means going to Iraq or Afghanistan three, or four times in a five-year period.
Woollons and Harwood, which has kitchenware and gift shops in Thirsk and Helmsley and a warehouse in Malton, was targeted three times last year.
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He posted a 152-187 record in 11 seasons, three times winning 20 games after starting his opening year with a 1-27 mark.
In contrast to other elites in the sport, who only fight once or twice a year, Donaire won the title in 2012 and successfully defended it three times in the same year.
In a good year, in times gone by, there might have been two or three.
Kernaghan visits the country on average three times a year and has interviewed Savar factory workers in their homes.
The Seattle district requires teachers to give the math and reading Measures of Academic Progress exam, or MAP, to students in first through ninth grade two or three times a year.
But his results imply that a two-person household headed by a man of 50 living on a farm in the south needs 4.6 times as much spending as a three-person family headed by a 30-year-old woman living in a city in the west.
What they discovered through analysis is a dramatic swing in pricing at three key times during the year.
If approved, the new sub-committee would meet in public four times a year and comprise three members of the justice committee and three members of other relevant Holyrood committees.
Tuchman, who hopes to expand in both those countries as well as in the Philippines, typically travels to the region three times a year, often taking time to socialize with his "dance loving" Filipino employees.
It said an 18-year-old was more than three times as likely as a 48-year-old to be involved in a crash, and that a third of drivers killed in car accidents were under 25.
Although lending slowed sharply in July, new lending by banks in the first seven months of this year was almost three times its level a year earlier.
It was even worse the next year in Vancouver, where she fell three times on her way to a 16th-place finish.
U.S. manufacturers now produce three and a half times more output per worker hour than they did in the peak employment year of 1979, in part because offshoring has sent many low-value jobs overseas, but also because automation has replaced lots of factory jobs.
Vaxgen Inc. has devised a three-year study in which participants will be counseled around 15 times.
The race was run at a scorching tempo, with the trio posting the three fastest times in the world this year.
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"There are probably only two or three times in my career that I started a season with the same performance advantage as I had last year, " Brawn said.
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According to the Ashgabat arrangement, Turkey agreed to buy more than 28 billion cubic metres of Turkmen gas a year, almost three times the quantity that it had signed up for in Tehran.
She meets with her students' fathers and grandfathers two or three times a year to address any issues and make sure she still has their buy-in.
He has won the Australian Open three times, including a record-breaking near six-hour final against Nadal in January, plus last year's Wimbledon and U.S. Open tournaments.
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Mark Koestler, co-chairman of the business-immigration practice at Kramer Levin in New York, said the firm is handling three times as many H-1B submissions as a year ago and more than even before the recession.
For example, in Pakistan a 10 to 12 year old boy from a wealthy urban family is three times more likely to attend school than a girl from a poor family living in a rural area.
This year they have played three times: the Australian Open final, which Djokovic won in a five-set match that lasted nearly six hours, and in Monte Carlo and in Rome, both on clay and both wins for Nadal.
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The 36-year-old has now made three tons in three successive frames a record four times.
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