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The Indian subcontinent's low, slow, dusty pitches breed exotic spinners, seamers that take wickets with smarts as much as sinew and batsmen adept at working straight balls to leg.
Battle for Global Cricket Supremacy Thrown Open Richard Lord 2012
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SINGAPORE - NTT DoCoMo Inc. doesn't expect its investment in India's Tata Teleservices Ltd. to become profitable for "several years" despite rapid growth in the subcontinent's highly competitive telecommunications market, a senior executive at Japan's largest mobile operator by subscribers said.
DoCoMo: India Venture won't Turn Profitable Chun Han Wong Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES 2011
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The emergence over the past couple of decades of an entire subcontinent's worth of new, enormously accomplished, and apparently highly collectible artists has thrown up all sorts of different work.
Robert Ayers: Wang Huaiqing's Chinese Art in Seattle Robert Ayers 2011
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It gives Vedanta a 58% stake in Cairn Energy, whose main asset is a Rajasthan oil field, the subcontinent's largest onshore oil project, that pumps 128,000 barrels a day.
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An understanding of what Pakistan's arsenal means for the subcontinent's nuclear future begins with recognizing who manages that arsenal and to what ends.
South Asia's Looming Arms Race Bruce Riedel 2011
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The emergence over the past couple of decades of an entire subcontinent's worth of new, enormously accomplished, and apparently highly collectible artists has thrown up all sorts of different work.
Robert Ayers: Wang Huaiqing's Chinese Art in Seattle Robert Ayers 2011
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In which case, I say, the current crop of Indian youngsters have a claim to be the subcontinent's first generation of teenagers.
Hanging out with India's first real teenagers | Aditya Chakrabortty 2011
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Rolls Royce cars were popular with the subcontinent's local and colonial elite of the time.
The Tiger Car 2011
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Some caveats need to be made: this is a phenomenon confined to well-off urban Indians – villagers and the urban poor are as locked out of this exclusive niche as they are from the rest of the subcontinent's newfound consumerism.
Hanging out with India's first real teenagers | Aditya Chakrabortty 2011
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It is ranked as extremely hazardous because of the subcontinent's high level of female infanticide and sex trafficking.
Afghanistan worst place in the world for women, but India in top five 2011
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