11.   RAPID RUN-UP RAISES EYEBROWS The stock of LHS Group, which develops telecommunications software, has risen at an astonishing rate for no apparent reason.

12.   Taxpayer dollars are being funneled into this bottomless pit at an astonishing rate.

13.   The food issued from the kitchen at an astonishing rate, and there was nothing standard or manufactured about it.

14.   Natron draws water out of the flesh at an astonishing rate.

15.   Political and economic opportunities for educated blacks increased at an astonishing rate.

16.   Shearer continued to score at an astonishing rate last season but Blackburn failed to make an impact in the Premiership and in Europe.