Sir Mervyn was blunter: the economy, he reckoned, had grown by only around 1% in the past year.
On the bigger-ticket end of the scale, car dealerships in central and southwest Texas generated some 1, 100 Better Business Bureau grievances in the past year, most related to misleading language on trade-in incentives and warranties.
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According to figures published on September 18th, while house prices increased by 5.7% in London over the past year, they fell by 1.3% in the North West.
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The economy is still creating around 1.2 million jobs in the past year, wages up 3 percent in real terms, and the total wage bill has continued to grow at a 5 percent pace.
England captain Andrew Strauss, who was reportedly the subject of some of Pietersen's text messages, paid tribute to the tourists and acknowledged his team's struggles in the past year since taking the No. 1 ranking from India.
The violence that has gripped Indonesia has already led to the killing of more than 1, 500 people in the Moluccas in the past year.
Expat living, on the whole, seems to be on the rise, with global rents jumping 5.1% over the past year in 11 global cities surveyed.
The numbers this year are lower than in recent years past: 1, 294 complaints total in March, the most recent month for which data are available.
And some stronger vacation-home markets, such as Burlington, Vt. (up 1.3% in the past year), have momentum on their side.
In Europe, the number of unemployed stands at 17.4 million, an increase of more than 1.7 million in the past year.
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In the past year we provided services to over 1 million people.
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By far the most ambitious of all the land deals in the past year was Daewoo Logistics' contract with the government of Madagascar to lease 1.3m hectares, almost half the country's arable land, to produce corn for Daewoo's home country, South Korea.
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While the stock price has doubled over the past year (it will split 2-for-1 in late May), Longbow Research's David S. MacGregor likes that the company is active in the growing South and that it operates both a recycling business and a global distribution operation that can offset downturns in domestic steel demand.
India's auto industry has grown an average of 12% for the past decade, but just 1.3 million passenger vehicles were sold in India in the fiscal year ending March 2006.
The United States is in the midst of a miraculous supply boom that has seen domestic oil output soar by more than 1 million barrels per day in the past year to the highest levels in decades.
Images from spy planes and sensors that detect wires that trigger explosives have helped to mitigate the No. 1 threat to U.S. troops in Afghanistan roadside bombs over the past year.
Cisco, a telecoms-equipment giant, has provided 1, 000 companies with such phones in the past year.
Rikuzentakata officials estimate more than 1, 000 people have moved away in the past year, leaving a population of about 20, 000.
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The implicit suggestion is that we could never have had the growth that Germany (2.6%) or even France (1.6%) have enjoyed in the past year.
And its shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange--which split 300-to-1 in February--have more than doubled over the past year.
On Twitter, 3 million more fans followed their teams in the past year to bring the NHL fan universe there above 4.1 million.
Meanwhile, U.S. refiners have actually increased the total capacity devoted to producing distillates in the past five years to a record 26.1% of all capacity last year.
Traffic gridlock looms in the big cities, especially Jakarta, where the number of motor vehicles has tripled to 9.5m in the past eight years but road space is growing at less than 1% a year.
In the past few weeks, the interest rate on five year treasuries has doubled to 1.9%.
The number of federal individual income tax returns examined by the Internal Revenue Service has continuously increased over the past five years, with 1 out of every 90 taxpayers examined in fiscal year 2010, according to a statistical report released today by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.
In the past year the new initiatives have prevented another 8, 000 deaths from pneumonia and 1, 000 from diarrhea.
The zone's headline inflation rate has stayed stubbornly above 2% in the past year, although core inflation (which excludes energy and food) is now 1.8%.
In the past year South Korea has announced its deployment of cruise missiles with a range of 1, 000 kilometers, capable of hitting targets anywhere in North Korea, along with tactical ballistic missiles and drones with a range of 300 kilometers.
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