Sentence examples for a revised pace from inspiring English sources
The Japanese government reported this week that its gross domestic product shrank at a revised pace of 12.1percentt a year in the fourth quarter, reflecting a 13.8percentt plunge in exports.
The sales fell from a revised pace of 966,000 houses in December.
Home builders rallied after the Commerce Department said construction of new homes fell 5.9% in February to a seasonally adjusted 575,000 from a revised pace of 622,000 in January.
The National Association of Realtors said Monday that sales of existing homes rose 6.5percenttoto an annual rate of 4.74 million in December, from a downwardly revised pace of 4.45 million in November.
The National Association of Realtors said sales rose 3.7 percent month over month to an annual rate of 5.10 million units after an upwardly revised pace of 4.92 million units in February.
Existing home sales fell in August to a seasonally adjusted rate of 4.91 million units, down 2.2percentt from an upwardly revised pace of 5.02 million in July.
The Commerce Department said housing starts climbed to a 1.04 million annual rate, the fastest pace since June 2008, and up from a revised rate of 968,000 in February.
Duncan Smith, and Lord Freud, the welfare minister and former city businessman, defend the revised pace by arguing they have urged the DWP to proceed with caution, testing and retesting.
Gross domestic product expanded at a 4.0percentt annual rate as activity picked up broadly after shrinking at a revised 2.1percentt pace in the first quarter, the Commerce Department said on Wednesday.
May's pace of borrowing was less than half the pace in April, when total consumer credit rose at a revised 10.5percentt rate, or $13.7 billion.
A revised estimate put the pace of growth at 3.8% at an annual rate, up from the 2.6% initially reported.Health consciousSuntory, a Japanese company that sells a range of alcoholic and soft drinks, agreed to buy the Lucozade energy-drink and Ribena fruit-juice brands from GlaxoSmithKline, a British drugs company, for £1.35 billion ($2.1 billion).
