The three-and-a-half percent growth was the first expansion in more than a year, and the strongest in two years.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

The growth rate in the first three months of this year was nearly twelve percent.

VOA: special.2010.06.18

It was the first growth in Japan's economy in fifteen months.

VOA: special.2009.08.21

First growth,though. Without growth you cannot fix those long-term fiscal problems,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.01