Sentence examples similar to quickened in the first from inspiring English sources

The pace of decline in Spain, a fellow euro-zone sufferer, quickened in the second quarter.

Hungary's GDP growth also quickened in the fourth quarter, to 3%.

Interest quickens in the nineteenth century, when rebels against the academy abjured aestheticism and, as the Wanderers, took to the hinterland with art about and for the people.

French GDP rose at an annual rate of 2.2% in the first quarter.The euro area's 12-month trade surplus fell to only $6.7 billion in March, down sharply from $73.2 billion a year earlier.British retail sales have picked up over the past few months, growing by 3% in the year to April.The world economy quickened in the first quarter of 2006, according to The Economist's GDP indicator.

The pace of rebuilding quickened in the 1950s.

And the pace has quickened in the last year.

But the pace has only quickened in the Bay Area, according to Trulia data.

JG 52 moved forward into the Soviet Union as the German advance quickened in the late summer and autumn.

Sales growth quickened as the first half of the company's financial year progressed.

The decline continued, quickening after the Second World War; in 1960 the War Office stopped offering premiums on stallions, and many breeders discontinued breeding.

But there are signs of change in the rich world: after five years of being weighed down by debt and deleveraging, it quickened its output in the third quarter.In this section Output, prices and jobs Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates The Economist commodity-price index World GDP Markets Reprints.