The economy is growing nicely, corporate profits are rising, and yet job growth remains frustratingly sluggish, even among skilled workers.

The buds of his finger and thumb joints were already growing nicely.

The pile in the centre of the room was growing nicely.

Growth may be sluggish in the corporate market for Microsoft's desktop products, but its data-serving software is growing nicely.

Some do not get eaten and grow nicely.

It is growing nicely with a lot of leaves, but there are no flowers at all for some reason.

Revenues are growing nicely at the company - in its last fiscal year, sales were $15.3 million, up 53 percent from 2005.

THE economy is growing nicely, and higher interest rates present little threat to that growth.

Some chains are growing nicely by taking business from leaders like McDonald's.

But the rest of the crop grew nicely.