The fastest growth rates are to be found in Africa, albeit from a low base.
Although these results are coming off a low base, these were generally better than expected.
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Yet the recent improvement is from a very low base, especially at the grandest stores.
Israel's intelligence operations have also been stepped up, albeit from a very low base.
Each store has a manager and a few associates paid a low base salary plus bonus.
And Rover's sales have been expanding fast in continental Europe, admittedly from a low base.
Housing is recovering from a very low base and the market has picked up speed.
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Private enterprise has flourished so far in part because it was starting from such a low base.
When inflation is rising slowly from a low base, however, bonds perform terribly, trailing stocks by 16%.
The central government has substantially increased its spending on health care, but from a very low base.
The number of loans taken out by first-time buyers rose slightly in September from a low base.
But again, the high growth rates are because of low base effect witnessed in the previous year quarter.
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Their dramatic upticks are due in large part to the fact that both grew from relatively low base values.
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We might see more currency appreciation, but not to the degree as we have seen coming from a low base.
Military units have attacked narcotics convoys and refineries, while drug seizures have risen -- albeit from a conspicuously low base.
The new flows are growing from a low base, and a high growth rate still yields only modest total values.
Also of note, the Koreans are attracting a steadily rising number of American and other foreign students (from a low base).
Anyway, Britain, France, Russia and China are modernising their weapons (only China is enlarging its arsenal, albeit from a low base).
But setting a low base salary and paying a larger part of compensation in performance-related bonuses might not be effective either.
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After a solid 2010, advertising expenditures came back surprisingly well in 2011, growing at more than 7%, albeit against a low base.
Property sales are rising and housing construction began to gain momentum from a low base by the second half of the year.
These large numbers are welcome, but do come off a low base.
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Both drug seizures and the number of anti-drug operations by Bolivia's police have increased under Mr Morales, though from a low base.
Japan offered concrete signs of recovery, but from a particularly low base.
The last couple of years have been strong for the automotive industry, although the growth has come on top of a low base.
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On a positive note, the firm said digital local display and property revenues grew by 43.8% and 25.2%, albeit from a low base.
Things are moving in the right direction, but in the UK we started from a low base with few women breastfeeding in the 70s.
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Both had the advantage, if you can call it that, of a bout of dictatorship before 1980, and so started from a low base.
Household consumption might be growing briskly, but because it starts from such a low base, it would barely show up in the overall figures.
They increased the money they managed by a third last year but the amount managed by foreigners surged by 80%, admittedly from a low base.
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