The van started with a jerk, then picked up speed.
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By contrast hirings and pay for temporary workers picked up speed.
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Since 2000, unemployment has been tipping downward and hasn't picked up speed under Trump.
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As we passed the cacophonous destruction zone, Millie picked up speed but didn't bolt.
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The outbreak picked up speed in April, after dirty rainwater further polluted the wells.
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As he picked up speed, he fell over, regained his footing and fell over again.
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Her work as a street artist picked up speed until it overtook her 9-5.
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However, investment picked up speed as the government fast-tracked more road and rail projects.
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On Monday it suddenly swung around to come from the southwest, and picked up speed.
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"Something that was just slowly happening over time has picked up speed," Ms. Smith said.
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He realized, while the car picked up speed, that it was probably wasn't a good idea.
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His cock grew harder, the muscles in his arms flexing as his hips picked up speed.
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Leaving Medina, the train steadily picked up speed, until it reached about 190 miles per hour.
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Another, from mortgage lender Nationwide, said house price rises picked up speed more than expected in August .
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The rain hit a mountainous region, which meant the water picked up speed as it flowed down.
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But he picked up speed the other day as he described an early encounter with Lady Gaga.
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This phenomenon picked up speed in 2008, when Dan Walsh's seminal project Garfield Minus Garfield gradually achieved popularity.
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The metal's decline picked up speed after it broke chart support at $2845.40,21.95, its 2903.95-day moving average.
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The storm further picked up speed and was about 213.5 km east of the Philippines late afternoon on Friday.
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China's home prices picked up speed again in February after slowing in the previous four months, while sales surged.
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Lava flows have picked up speed in recent days, spattering molten rock that hit a man in the leg.
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The storm picked up speed slightly on Friday and was about 450 km east of the Philippines at noon.
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British manufacturers bucked the global trend in May and picked up speed for the first time in six months.
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Concern over China's practices picked up speed at the end of the Obama administration and has only increased since.
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Midway through its seven-hour flight, the U.S. plane changed course, picked up speed and descended toward the ocean surface.
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Since October, the decline in the Canadian dollar, already looking shaky against a surging American currency, has picked up speed.
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Typhoon Lekima started out as a tropical depression on August 2, then quickly picked up speed as it headed northwest.
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China's home prices picked up speed again in February after slowing in the previous four months, while sales have surged.
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That's what happened to Irma on August 30, as it picked up speed in the far Eastern Atlantic and intensified.
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While its winds had diminished to a Category 295 storm, Dorian expanded in size and picked up speed on Tuesday.
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At one point, the cab picked up speed as it turned left off a southbound avenue onto a crosstown street.
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Except for a brief downshift in 2015 when a Chinese slowdown hit global growth, Japanese sales abroad picked up speed.
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The surge picked up speed in the last week, mirroring gold's climb amid a global selloff in stocks and bonds.
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I'd been about 700 pages in when the titular character's despair picked up speed, just as my own mood deteriorated.
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Others tried to pull him aboard as the train picked up speed, but he fell, and his left leg was shredded.
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Dialogue with America picked up speed after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist, at his country's consulate in Istanbul.
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Footage seen from a different angle on Israeli television appeared to show an officer opening fire before it picked up speed.
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After Election Day, the process quickly picked up speed, but Bush's transition team was far smaller than Reagan's in 1980-'81.
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Hamilton, apparently stung by that prospect, picked up speed — contradicting his claim that he had been going as fast as possible before.
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Talks between Seoul and Washington on the Thaad deployment picked up speed after North Korea conducted its fourth nuclear test in January.
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The rebound in the United States offered investors a much-needed reprieve from a decline that had picked up speed in December.
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The News Feed caused more people to spend more time on Facebook, a trend that picked up speed during the years that followed.
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Sales picked up speed from the year prior, too, rising 49 percent to $6.1 billion and beating the average estimate of $6 billion.
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And as it picked up speed, it began making stops more clean and turns more perfectly timed than a human could ever attempt.
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With no stops until Kenitra, 128 miles south of Tangier and almost all the way to Rabat, the train quickly picked up speed.
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However, investment picked up speed as the government fast-tracked more road and rail projects, and more monetary policy support is expected this year.
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The campaign, which started two years ago but picked up speed in recent months, is so broad that it is starting to affect markets.
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Model heartbeat bills were originally circulated by fringe anti-abortion groups in 2013, but the legislative push has picked up speed over the past year.
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The flight to gold picked up speed on reports three British commercial property funds worth about 10 billion pounds had suspended trading within 24 hours.
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But as that additional service has picked up speed, Amazon is adding new locales to the Whole Foods delivery footprint at an increasingly fast pace.
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Expansion has picked up speed in the euro zone this year, with the economy growing 0.6 percent in the third quarter on a quarterly basis.
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House prices picked up speed in August and households recovered some confidence, which had plunged after the Brexit vote, according to surveys released this week.
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The American economy has picked up speed and is now on course to expand this year at the fastest rate in more than a decade.
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It quickly picked up speed, however, when the team started realizing how important FaceTime was to a generation of kids, strategist Daniel Greenberg tells The Verge.
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Data retrieved from the sedan shows that it picked up speed for 3.5 seconds shortly before the collision in South Jordan, according to the Associated Press.
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The French economy picked up speed in the final quarter of 2016, after a lacklustre performance in the previous two, thanks to consumer and investment spending.
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Japan's economy, which has been oscillating between growth and contraction for years, picked up speed in the first quarter, according to government data released on Wednesday.
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Over the three months to May, growth in services — which makes up 80 percent of economic output — picked up speed to 0.4 percent from 0.2 percent.
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Mr. Biden also visited in recent days, scooping up endorsements from elected Democrats, a trend that picked up speed after his South Carolina victory on Saturday.
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Dorian has weakened (currently to 105mph), but it has picked up speed, and is now moving north-northwest at 8mph, according to the latest NHC update.
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Dorian's winds had diminished to a Category 2 storm on the five-step Saffir-Simpson intensity scale, the hurricane grew in size and picked up speed.
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Data released on Tuesday showed consumer price inflation picked up speed in April to hit 2.7 percent and many economists think it will reach 3 percent soon.
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Britain's economy picked up speed in the third quarter, data released on Wednesday showed, increasing expectations that the Bank of England will lift interest rates next month.
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Growth among British manufacturers picked up speed in May for the first time in six months, but the improvement masked underlying weakness, a survey showed on Friday.
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Fed policymakers have been encouraged in recent months as the economy picked up speed and the unemployment rate fell to a 17-year low of 4.1 percent.
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In the 1980s, magnetic north picked up speed, and by the year 2000 it was traveling at 35 miles per year on the way out of Canada.
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"The Ken Bone phenomenon has only picked up speed since, and we knew right away that a sexy costume version would be in huge demand this Halloween season."
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Seattle fell away as we entered the inky dark of Puget Sound, our wake slicing away at 45-degree angles from the hull as we picked up speed.
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Year-on-year growth in retail sales accelerated to 11 percent in June from 10.7 percent in May, while fixed-asset investment also picked up speed in June.
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But in early 2018, scientists found that the north magnetic pole had picked up speed and was heading eastward at a lively clip, about 35 miles a year.
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The European statistics office Eurostat said the euro zone's expansion picked up speed in the second quarter, with the economy growing 0.6 percent compared with the previous three months.
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However, the French economy picked up speed in the final quarter of 2016, after a lacklustre performance in the previous two, thanks to more buoyant consumer and investment spending.
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In an interview with Broadly, Dr. Larson said she was amused to see that her research has picked up speed more than a decade after first publishing the findings.
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While its winds had diminished to a Category 2 storm on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale of intensity, Dorian expanded in size and picked up speed on Tuesday.
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"The German economy has shifted into a higher gear and picked up speed considerably in spring," Unicredit analyst Andreas Rees, pointing to strong domestic activity and vibrant household spending.
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The storm picked up speed as it moved away from the islands and strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane, with winds of 75 mph, Sunday night, the center said.
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"She came out, went down the two flights of stairs, and it looked like she kind of hit the throttle because she picked up speed," Nathan Kramchynski told Metro News.
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It was not until President Macky Sall took office in Senegal in 2012 that the process picked up speed, with the creation of the Extraordinary African Tribunal a year later.
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Two cars were surrounded by protesters and not moving when a third turned a corner, picked up speed, and slammed into the rear of the second car, pushing both forward.
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The sell-off in financials picked up speed on Friday after the yield curve between the 3-month and 10-year Treasury note inverted for the first time since 2007.
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Britain's economy unexpectedly picked up speed in the second quarter, but recent surveys have shown the manufacturing, services and construction activity are all poised for a sharp slowdown post-Brexit.
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Washington (CNN)Top tax and policy staffers from both the House and the Senate met at various points Wednesday as the process of crafting a final bill picked up speed.
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The hurricane grew and picked up speed on Tuesday, moving at about 2 mph (3.2 kph) on its northwest track about 105 miles (165 km) off of Florida's east coast.
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But it wasn't until Monday that the clip really, er, picked up speed when Hannah Tiede, a reporter from KOLD News, a local TV station, posted the javelina on Twitter.
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The storm weakened into a tropical depression but moved southwest and picked up speed on Sunday, with sustained winds of 34 miles per hour, according to officials and the police.
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Stocks were already higher before Mr. Powell's comments, rising off Labor Department figures that showed robust gains in hiring, but the rally picked up speed after he spoke Friday morning.
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The BRC said food prices picked up speed to rise by an annual 1.9 percent in August while non-food deflation eased to 1.0 percent, the weakest fall since April 2013.
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The BRC said food prices picked up speed to rise by an annual 1.9 percent in August while non-food deflation eased to 1.0 percent, the weakest fall since April 2013.
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The powerful American had been on a 23-match winning roll at Wimbledon, a sequence that started in 2015, and had picked up speed round by round in the past fortnight.
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He reportedly told staff that he would stay in the job until at least 2020, but speculation about his status picked up speed days ago, amid reports that his departure was imminent.
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On the mile-long stretch to the tunnel beside the Place de l'Alma, he picked up speed but lost none of their pursuers – at least seven cameramen on five motorcycles and scooters.
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The investigation in Peru had picked up speed in recent months, with a judge ordering another former president, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, to jail before trial in connection with the company last week.
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As a major producer of oil and gas, the Norwegian economy slumped following the 2014 crash in energy prices, but has since picked up speed as the price of crude gradually recovered.
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LONDON, March 1 (Reuters) - British house price rises unexpectedly picked up speed in February, recovering from the weakest month for more than a year in January, mortgage lender Nationwide said on Wednesday.
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But investment picked up speed as the government fast-tracked more road and rail projects, offering some relief for policymakers as they work to avert a sharper slowdown, data showed on Thursday.
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Authorities alerted residents in the Kapoho area, including Kapoho Beach Lots and Vacation Lots, to evacuate as the fast-moving lava flow near Highway 132 picked up speed and advanced toward the area.
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It wasn't constant, though: the ice slowed down again between 2006 and 2013, and might have picked up speed again after 2013, though more data is needed to actually confirm this, Greene says.
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Lending has been on a steady upward path since early 2015 but picked up speed only gradually, leading to concerns that ECB measures were taking too long to work and were perhaps ineffective.
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As the peso's slide picked up speed earlier this year, the U.S.-Mexico's trade deficit widened to more than $2.53 billion, Census Bureau data shows, compared to nearly $3 billion in December 2015.
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Pakistan's economy has picked up speed in recent years, with a reduction in militant attacks and vast Chinese infrastructure investment spurring growth to above 5 percent for the first time in a decade.
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Turning out of the complex, his posture straight, he picked up speed and resumed our discussion on chains of distribution: who controls a piece of intellectual property, and who makes money on it.
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In early 2018, it became clear that 2015's edition was in trouble, because the pole's Siberian stroll had picked up speed, rendering the model — and therefore a number of navigational systems — incorrect.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's economy picked up speed in the three months up to its vote to leave the European Union, data showed on Wednesday, helped by the biggest upturn in industrial production since 1999.
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Since then it has picked up speed with formal deals for 220 aircraft, including a 100-plane order from Irish lessor Avolon, leaving it 90 short of Boeing's end-November total of 690 jets.
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Bradbury's short story was written at a time when space exploration was gaining significant momentum, as the Cold War raged and the space race between the Soviet Union and the U.S. picked up speed.
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The pound rose after Britain's economy unexpectedly picked up speed in the last three months of 2017, adding to the view that the hit from the Brexit vote was not as bad as expected.
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Sources say the talks, which have been happening over the last several weeks, have picked up speed in recent days and could lead to an announcement regarding a merger or partnership as soon as tomorrow.
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Search-and-rescue operations and an international humanitarian effort to help the victims picked up speed, with emergency officials fanning out across the stricken areas and tracking down people who were missing or in distress.
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Inflation has picked up speed broadly around the world but in Britain there is extra pressure from the fall in sterling, contributing to a sharp slowdown in British economic growth since the start of this year.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - The German economy, Europe's largest, picked up speed at the beginning of this year, lifted by a robust industrial sector and rising employment that is supporting private consumption, the Economy Ministry said on Wednesday.
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Analysts predict falling group sales and profits this year and next before a return to growth in 2018, when the impact of patent expiries will lessen and sales of newer medicines should have picked up speed.
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As the recovery from Harvey picked up speed, Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rossello and Florida Governor Rick Scott each declared a state of emergency in preparation for the arrival of Irma, a dangerous Category 4 hurricane.
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Her statement picked up speed quickly, and has over 2,100 RTs and over 1,300 likes so far — as well as many chilling responses, like these: Chances are, you know multiple people who have posted the #MeToo hashtag.
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LONDON, March 3 (Reuters) - British house price growth picked up speed in annual terms last month as investors sought out buy-to-let properties before the introduction of a new tax, mortgage lender Nationwide said on Thursday.
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The downgraded storm has picked up speed to 2306 miles per hour (9.6 kph), but its strength on the five-step Saffir-Simpson Wind Scale still indicates maximum sustained winds of 110 miles per hour (177 kph).
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Growth in China's industrial output fell to a 17-year low in the first two months of 2019, but investment picked up speed as the government fast-tracked more road and rail projects, official data showed on Thursday.
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The euro zone's second-biggest economy picked up speed in the final three months of last year, growing by 0.4 percent, thanks to more buoyant consumer and investment spending, after a lackluster performance in the previous two quarters.
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Earlier in the week, the authorities advised residents in areas prone to floods and landslides to leave their homes as the typhoon picked up speed, with sustained winds up to 75 miles per hour, heavy rain and flooding.
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Data last week showed Britain's economy unexpectedly picked up speed in the last three months of 2017, adding to the view that the hit from the Brexit vote in June 2016 was not as bad as some had expected.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - The German economy defied increased political risks and picked up speed in the first quarter of 2017 as companies invested more, consumers and the state continued to spend and exports soared despite the threat of rising protectionism.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British house price rises picked up speed in August and households recovered some confidence which had plunged after June's Brexit vote, according to surveys that added to signs of calm among consumers after the unexpected referendum result.
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Firefighters described a rapid change in the direction of the wind, which also picked up speed, and some suggested the thick covering of pine trees and a mood of panic were a deadly combination that would have been hard to combat.
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Sterling got a boost after data showed Britain's economy picked up speed in the third quarter, bolstering the case for the Bank of England to raise UK interest rates next week for the first time in more than a decade.
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Soon enough, the pair ended up at an amusement park as Gomez managed to continue the vocals to "Come and Get it," while Corden's lines were interrupted by his screams as the roller coaster the pair was riding picked up speed.
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Police down the road in Hillsboro clocked Schroedermeier at 105 mph, but were unable to stop him, and then Scrhoedermeier blew by a trooper in Thompson at 94 mph and picked up speed as police engaged him in a third pursuit.
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Britain's economy unexpectedly picked up speed in the last three months of 853, data showed earlier on Friday, adding to the view that the hit from the Brexit vote in June 2016 was not as bad as some had expected.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's economy unexpectedly picked up speed in the last three months of 2017, according to data which showed that the prospect of Brexit was still weighing on the economy, but not as heavily as once feared by investors.
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Live updates on Hurricane Michael Now a Category 1 storm with winds up to 75 mph, Michael appeared to be moving slower after making landfall but has since picked up speed as it moves across southwestern Georgia at about 20 mph.
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The Hawaii County Civil Defense agency issued the advisory as lava flows picked up speed late on Tuesday and early on Wednesday and threatened to cut off a key traffic route into the seaside area on the far eastern flank of the volcano.
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Watching the wind play across the sails, hearing the telltale snap as they went taut, and then the rush of the water against the rail as the ship picked up speed and settled lower in the water… it was all wonderfully familiar.
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Britain's 10-year gilt yield spiked 8 bps to 1.44 percent as Britain's economy unexpectedly picked up speed in the three months to September, putting the Bank of England on track to raise rates next week for the first time a decade.
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The opposition branded Rousseff's appointment of her charismatic political mentor as a desperate bid to shore up support in her Workers Party against impeachment proceedings, which picked up speed in Congress on Friday, as well as a means of protecting him from prosecutors.
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The falling production and arrests of PDVSA executives on allegations of corruption picked up speed late last year after Maduro named a military chief with no oil industry experience, Major General Manuel Quevedo, as the nation's oil minister and president of PDVSA.
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LONDON, Aug 31 (Reuters) - British house price rises picked up speed and increased more quickly than expected in August as a shortage in the market outweighed the impact of Britain's Brexit vote and a recent tax increase, mortgage lender Nationwide said on Wednesday.
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The bone-dry Santa Ana winds blowing from the northeast picked up speed, gusting to 60 miles per hour in places, adding to firefighters' struggles with thick brush and rugged terrain, though it did not reach the extreme speeds forecasters had feared.
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Separate data on overall British retail sales showed they picked up speed in December, though sales of bigger ticket items were sluggish, a possible early sign that consumers are bracing for a hit to their spending power after Britain's vote to leave the European Union.
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After a somewhat slow start, the 34-year-old picked up speed as she went, burning up the middle of the course and cruising across the finish line to snatch the lead from Germany's Viktoria Rebensburg in a time of one minute and 02.23 seconds.
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Twitter didn't comment on the report, and News Corp said the rumor is untrue, but the fact that the rumor surfaced and picked up speed so quickly points to just how precarious the company feels right now as a public stock and perhaps as a business, too.
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However, the combination of fewer bookings and more cancellations has picked up speed since then, and the airlines' problems were made even more dire by Trump's decision this week to ban most foreigners from flying from Europe to the U.S. for 30 days, beginning at midnight Friday.
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The Jets (20-20-3) opened the scoring when Byfuglien picked off an errant pass in his own zone by the Flames (22-19-43) and head-manned the puck to right winger Drew Stafford, who gave it right back to the big defenseman as he picked up speed.
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Slowed down for months by phony leads and obstruction by the government, which tipped off suspects about imminent arrests, the investigation into Ms. Caruana Galizia's murder suddenly picked up speed late last month after a self-confessed middleman in the murder plot, fearing for his life, started talking.
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One interesting trend is the growing number of cities, states/regions and companies that are committing to transformational long-term goals, such as net zero emissions by 2050, or getting 100 percent of their energy from renewable sources; this started before Paris and has picked up speed since then.
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WASHINGTON — As the impeachment inquiry has picked up speed in recent weeks, Americans have heard a lot about the "three amigos" — a trio of Washington figures who worked with President Trump's personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, to carry out Mr. Trump's plan for Ukraine to investigate his political rivals.
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The auction is among the first of its kind since the movement to remove Confederate monuments picked up speed, first in 2015, after a white supremacist killed nine black congregants at a church in Charleston, S.C., and then in 2017, when a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., led to the death of a counterprotester.
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The U.S. recorded four more deaths as the outbreak picked up speed Officials are racing to cope with a cluster of infections near Seattle A top Iranian official died after contracting the virus What we know about the virus, and what you can do Read the latest news, plus maps and full coverage Welcome to the Coronavirus Briefing, a new newsletter from The New York Times.
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Kids were everywhere: on a low rise, a pod of tiny children in pastel skates were getting an inline-skating lesson, their legs pumping on their teacher's command; on a stone-covered hill that was a miniature version of one on Governors Island, a boy shot off the end of a slide into the sand, laughing, while a mother behind him looked nervous as she picked up speed.
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