That pace of accumulation is not expected to be sustained in coming quarters.

Even that unimpressive pace is expected to slow with the next budget.

The pace of growth is expected to accelerate this year, the agency said, but gains will be smaller than elsewhere in the nation.

Indeed, the pace of change in the next decade is expected to be as great as in the last one.

Even so, the pace of change is expected to be gradual and cumulative.

That pace isn't expected to get off to a meteoric start.

Although they are now strong, their pace of growth is expected to slow markedly in the quarters ahead.

A similarly slow investigative pace can be expected in the Cedeno case.

But most legal experts agree that the pace is not expected to rise that rapidly.

Once the new countries join in 2004, reducing trade and employment barriers, the pace of investment is expected to accelerate.