Though the weather delayed the trickle down spending by visitors a day or two, these figures suggest that visitors were eager to get out and spend once the weather encouraged greater mobility.

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These figures, though, tend to suggest that over-reliance on altitude is not doing Bolivian football any long term favours.

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"Of course we should sell Wales overseas, of course that costs money but these figures suggest a runaway culture of credit card spending, " she added.

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International Campaign for Tibet (ICT), an NGO based in Washington, DC, says official figures suggest that some 1, 200 of these detainees remain unaccounted for.

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These figures almost certainly overstate the true pace of growth, and yet more reliable numbers suggest that investment is growing at the still-rapid rate of about 30%.

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"In (the state of) Guerrero what we've seen is partly these movements which are the direct results of threats, " she explains, adding that some figures suggest up to 400, 000 people across the country may have been forced to uproot in this way.

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The interesting analytical problem is that these figures are very different from those from surveys of the install base (by Comscore and others), which suggest that iPhone share is more like a third of US smartphones.

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The conspiracy theorist might suggest that the Welsh Government, struggling to win the public argument on reconfiguration, has put these figures out in order to make the case for centralising services in fewer, larger hospitals more compelling.

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