The phrase "accelerated about" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe something that has increased in speed or intensity regarding a specific topic or situation, but the phrasing is awkward.
Example: "The project accelerated about the timeline after the new resources were allocated."
Alternatives: "increased regarding" or "sped up concerning".
In the Harvard Forest, the rate of carbon storage accelerated about a decade ago.
Productivity is a basic measure of business efficiency, or output per hour, and after languishing for more than two decades it suddenly accelerated about six years ago.
The battle over FutureGen accelerated about a year ago when the Bush administration blocked the project hours after Mattoon was chosen over two towns in President George W. Bush's home state of Texas.
The degradation rates were enhanced 1.3 3.0 times in the presence of TCAA at pH 7.5 and 8.0 at 80 °C, while the hydrolysis of oligoguanylate (oligo(G)) was accelerated about 1.6 times at pH 8.0.
Once the 6-foot-5 Bolt accelerated about 30 meters in, there was no competition — not from Trinidad and Tobago's Richard Thompson, the silver medalist; or the bronze medalist, Walter Dix of the United States; and certainly not from his countryman Asafa Powell, one the three fastest 100-meter runners ever, with Bolt and Gay.
This trend accelerated about 15,000 years ago as large game and tortoises disappeared from the Mediterranean diet altogether driven to the brink of extinction by human predation.In times of prey scarcity, Homo erectus, like other predators, had simply suffered local extinction; these new people could innovate their way out of trouble they could shift their niche.
The all-electric convertible sports car accelerates about as fast as a Porsche 911 Turbo, but gets nearly three times the mileage equivalent of a Toyota Prius.
The fastest cars available accelerate about twice as fast as, corner about a third harder than, and have slicker, shinier seats than the cheapest.
Spending on the war in Iraq has accelerated, to about $120 billion this year.
The capacity fade in the large cell is accelerated by about 33% for cycling operation due to the activated parasitic reactions at high temperature conditions.
That leaves 74percentt for the weight of whatever began causing the cosmos to accelerate about five billion years ago.
