"Despite the dreadful weather, both the food and non-food sectors reported impressive growth, " he said.
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It feels like a glimpse of the dreadful side of the nature of things.
Commenting on Stefan Kiszko's wrongful conviction, McLean admitted a "dreadful miscarriage of justice" had occurred.
John Utaka burst through with the interval approaching but sent a dreadful effort way off target.
But one of his roles was to raise funds, and the timing proved dreadful.
And here we are in a dreadful situation at the moment, but we mustn't give up.
We switched on the radio, and heard dreadful stories of suffering and tragic loss.
Retail banking might have been a nice earner, but their high-street operations are small and dreadful.
Gavin Brooks, from the public services union Unison, described the cuts as "absolutely dreadful".
Instead of vindicating his prosecution of the war, the assessment is a dreadful indictment of it.
Unemployment is still under 7%, but that partly reflects dreadful productivity, measured in output per person.
I'm more concerned with the bank's lending programs, especially given the dreadful situation in Pakistan.
With Tom Wilkinson as a theatre manager and the dreadful, movie-wrecking Rupert Everett as Charles II.
Most business presentations are dreadful boring, platitudinous, and delivered with a compelling lack of enthusiasm.
The victim, who does not want to be identified, said it was a "dreadful situation".
They saw the comic potential of his hairdresser roots, if you forgive me that dreadful pun.
With global temperatures ranking "only" ninth in the record we suffered dreadful extremes.
Dreadful, in an aimless, intentionally disjointed way that some people have mistaken for art.
What about relations with Chile - ruined by his dreadful mishandling of the Pinochet affair.
"But the dreadful memories eat away at you all the time, day-by-day, month-by-month, year-by-year".
Mrs Edwards and Mrs Romney are both struggling against dreadful diseases multiple sclerosis in Mrs Romney's case.
There is a taboo against giving aid to Myanmar for fear of bolstering the dreadful regime.
The minister was mildly more proficient than his team-mates but the standard was reassuringly dreadful.
Mr Berlusconi's stewardship has been dreadful for Italy's economy, which has barely grown on his watch.
They have run dreadful governments in India's most populous state and are prodigiously corrupt.
Komen that reflects a pointed and appropriate pathway to finding the cures for this dreadful disease.
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This tradition continues in three new novels, two of which reflect Europe's dreadful 20th century.
But the Hammond report paints a picture of dreadful muddle and confusion surrounding the Hinduja affair.
It has laid bare some of the facts about the world's most dreadful wars.
Mr Cameron paid his condolences to the bereaved families, who had undergone "an absolutely dreadful ordeal".
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