1.   Far-reaching organisational changes were being forced upon many of them by the sheer growth of business, the sharpening of international rivalries and the accelerating pace of events.

2.   As a result, gasoline consumption is increasing at an accelerating pace, according to the American Petroleum Institute.

3.   As an enemy for terrorists, the United States itself has been changing the definition of superpower at an accelerating pace in the past decade.

4.   But the rapidly accelerating pace of lawsuits is also producing a high-speed game of legal Russian roulette for those companies.

5.   But with the accelerating pace of technological innovation, product cycles are measured in weeks rather than years.

6.   Despite the uncertainty, few biologists who grapple with the question doubt that humanity is driving other species toward extinction at an accelerating pace.

7.   He was referring to the accelerating pace of product development that has been forced by the runaway technology demands of the Internet.

8.   Money managers said they believe investors are becoming so concerned about their retirement savings they are shifting their money out of stocks an accelerating pace.

9.   Others looked toward buildings precisely as a refuge from the accelerating pace of social and technological change.

10.   Psychiatrists here say they are not sure why, though they believe the accelerating pace of social and economic change is behind the rising rates.