By 2009 with natural gas prices at a long-term low, Alberta's economy was in poor health compared to before, although still relatively better than many other comparable jurisdictions.

By late 2009 39 % of households had internet access Colombia had 581, 877 Internet hosts in 2006.

By July 2009, the IHF listed 166 member federations-approximately 795, 000 teams and 19 million players.

By 2009, a Taliban-led shadow government began to form in many parts of the country complete with their own version of mediation court.

By 2009, the chip was almost entirely deployed on servers made by HP, which had over 95 % of the Itanium server market share, making the main operating system for Itanium HP-UX.

By 2009 unemployment rose to 23 % and was the highest in the EU.

By August 2009, Latvia's GDP had fallen by 20 % year on year, with S & P predicting a further 16 % contraction to come.

* Manhattan ( 2009 song ), 2009 song from Kings of Leon's Only By The Night album

By 2009, 27 coffee shops selling cannabis in Rotterdam, all within 200 metres from schools, must close down.

By March 2009, Porsche SE was aiming for its first ever credit ratings from U. S. rating agencies Standard & Poor's and Moody's.

By July 2009, Porsche was faced with debts exceeding 10 billion euros.

By November 2005, Hawass was suggesting a three-month loan of the Rosetta Stone, while reiterating the eventual goal of a permanent return ; in December 2009, he proposed to drop his claim for the permanent return of the Rosetta Stone if the British Museum loaned the stone to Egypt for three months, for the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum at Giza in 2013.

By 2008, these state-owned corporations had become increasingly dynamic and generated large increases in revenue for the state, resulting in a state-sector led recovery during the 2009 financial crises while accounting for most of China's economic growth.

By February 2009, there were more than 4. 8 million broadband users in Singapore.

By January 2009, Al-Shabaab and other militias had managed to force the Ethiopian troops to retreat, leaving behind an under-equipped African Union peacekeeping force to assist the Transitional Federal Government's troops.

By 2009, the CIA estimated that the GDP had grown to $ 5. 731 billion, with a projected real growth rate of 2. 6 %.

By January 2009, Al-Shabaab and other militias had managed to force the Ethiopian troops to retreat, leaving behind an under-equipped African Union peacekeeping force to assist the Transitional Federal Government's troops.

By 2009, a rebuilding Somalia had re-established its national army and police force, with a new navy and air force also in the process of being re-constituted.

By July 2009, it had shed 1. 2 million jobs in one year.

By the end of 2009, there were 787 financial institutions, of which 170 were foreign-invested.

By the end of 2009, there were a total of nearly 6 billion mobile and fixed-line subscribers worldwide.

By the end of 2009, 146 Libertarians were holding elected offices.

* Fixing UNRWA: Repairing the UN's Troubled System of Aid to Palestinian Refugees ( By James G. Lindsay, Washington Institute for Near East Policy: January 2009 )

By 2003, the Booby colonies on Clipperton boasted 25, 000 Brown Boobies and 112, 000 Masked Boobies, making the atoll the world's second-largest Brown Booby colony, and its largest Masked Booby colony.

By 1960, the vast majority of country-states were nominally democracies, although most of the world's populations lived in nations that experienced sham elections, and other forms of subterfuge ( particularly in Communist nations and the former colonies.

By contrast, approximately 8. 7 % of the world's languages display no phonemic fricatives at all.

To manage the merchandise, Davis founded Paws, Inc. By 2002, Garfield became the world's most syndicated strip, appearing in 2, 570 newspapers with 263 million readers worldwide ; by 2004, Garfield appeared in nearly 2, 600 newspapers and sold from $ 750 million to $ 1 billion worth of merchandise in 111 countries.

By 1930 Honduras had become the world's leading producer of the fruit, accounting for one-third of the world's supply of bananas.

By the 1890s, industrialisation in these areas had created the first giant industrial corporations with burgeoning global interests, as companies like U. S. Steel, General Electric, Standard Oil and Bayer AG joined the railroad companies on the world's stock markets.

By 1937, the members had made the decision to create a new language, to the surprise of the world's interlanguage community.

By this time, Led Zeppelin were the world's number one rock attraction, having outsold most bands of the time, including The Rolling Stones.

By 2010, 35 % of the world's shipping is expected to originate from China.

By the late 20th century the majority of the world's countries had a prime minister or equivalent minister, holding office under either a constitutional monarchy or a ceremonial president.

By October 1918, it had spread to become a worldwide pandemic on all continents, and eventually infected about one-third of the world's population ( or ≈ 500 million persons ).

By 1908, São Tomé had become the world's largest producer of cocoa, which still is the country's most important crop.

By 1932, Shanghai had become the world's fifth largest city and home to 70, 000 foreigners.

By 1938 it was clear that war was looming, and that Germany had the world's most powerful military.

By 1997, 81 % of the developing world's wheat area was planted to semi-dwarf wheats, giving both increased yields and better response to nitrogenous fertilizer.

By 2005 there was nearly accounting for almost 25 % of the world's total Chardonnay plantings.

By 1884, Joseph Hudson had perfected his whistles and he released the world's most successful whistle to date, the " Acme Thunderer " ( the first ever pea whistle ).

* By this year, the annual output of copper currency for the Chinese Song Dynasty reaches 6 billion coins a year, prompting the Chinese government to adopt the world's first paper-printed money later in the 1120s.

* By 2020, according to financial experts, the Chinese Yuan will be one of the world's three main currencies, along with the U. S. Dollar and the Euro.

By exception the three surviving lodges that formed the world's first known Grand Lodge in London ( today called the United Grand Lodge of England ) have the unique privilege to operate as time immemorial i. e. without such warrant ; only one other lodge operates without a warrant-this is the Grand Stewards ' Lodge in London, although it is not also entitled to the " time immemorial " title.

By this time the Toronto Pride Week Festival had been running for twenty-three years, making it one of the world's longest running organized Pride celebrations.

By the early twentieth century Sydney became home to one of the world's largest steel plants, fed by the numerous coal mines in the area under the ownership of the Dominion Coal Company.

By the 1990s, Canadian literature was viewed as some of the world's best.