The growth rate slowed sharply in the latter half of the year.

With the economy slowing sharply, investors see more trouble ahead.

The report provided further evidence that the economy slowed sharply in the first quarter.

But now we know what they were saying the last time the economy reached a peak and then slowed sharply, which was in 1989.

With the economy now slowing sharply, that prospect looks less certain than it did just a month or so ago.

But the growth rate for the economy still slowed sharply from the 5.6 percent pace of the first quarter.

Job losses for manufacturing as a whole have slowed sharply.

In recent weeks China's once unstoppable economy has slowed sharply.

This, he added, means that the economy should be "slowing sharply" by year's end.

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