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• It also quickened the urgency for the state to enact this executive role.

• Towards the end of the 19th century the pace of colonial takeovers and commercial penetration of poor countries quickened.

• Following the crises of the 1590s, the pace of change seems to have quickened.

• The prose in it, heavy and awkward, clomps along, rarely quickened by an active verb, a concrete noun, or a vivid modifier.

• After 1973, the pace of varietal development quickened, with 14 new releases (eight durum, six bread wheat, by 1993).

• Each time he first caught sight of his wife when she visited, his movements quickened.

• The pace quickened as we moved on with a brief discussion in preparation for a wholegroup improvisation.

• As noted earlier, good-quality soil farmers with extra cash had similar outcomes, but on poor-quality soils, slightly higher cash endowments quickened the establishment of viable farms and increased deforestation.