1.   If the growth of labour costs exceeds that of productivity, the profit share is squeezed.

2.   But the downside is the prospect of renewed inflation, especially the kind of wage inflation generated when job growth exceeds labor force expansion.

3.   Credit growth often exceeds income growth in the early stages of a slowdown, said Stone.

4.   CS Holding said that preliminary estimates show that annual growth will exceed the estimated annual cost reduction.

5.   Dell said earnings growth exceeded sales growth because of a higher percentage of sales of servers and notebook computers, which have higher profit margins.

6.   For much of the last few years, as the yen was rising, import growth exceeded export growth, and trade was a drag on the economic expansion.

7.   It was the fourth time in five months that import growth exceeded export expansion.

8.   It was the third consecutive month that import growth has exceeded export expansion.

9.   Its profit growth exceeded expectations.