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

Two quotations, the first the president Bush " "Passing a new growth package is our most pressing economic priority."

下面是两个引述，第一个来自布什总统,“一个新的一揽子增长计划迫在眉睫“

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

One--the first wave of REIT growth occurred right after Congress passed the 1960 bill.

EITs增长的第一波高潮,发生在国会1960年法案通过之后

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

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