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'In the last four or five years we have ramped it up to a much larger scale, ' he says.

All this goes much farther than Britain's policy of "neighbourhood policing" , ramped up in recent years.

The Fitch statement said Citic used to be one of the best-capitalized banks in China, but that its position slipped as it ramped up lending.

The Bank began to publicize the quality education issue in January, as the presidential candidates ramped up their political campaigns.

And in recent years, religious leaders seem to have ramped up their efforts at straying from literal Bible teachings.

Probably the biggest change was that Google Apps ramped up this year, starting with the release of Google Apps Premier in February.

By the time we got to the stage of doing system builds, the I&T team was fully ramped up and competently leading the process.

In the last few years, Baird has ramped up similar operations in India to help US portfolio companies in business services and healthcare.

Back in Tokyo, opposition politicians ramped up over the weekend their campaign of criticism against Noda's decision.

Assume that we have ramped up to this spending rate, so that by May we have reached the $25bn rate of monthly spending.

As chemistry has ramped up in the past century, ingredients in cosmetics have become increasingly complex and cutting-edge.

Direct flights have been available only at weekends for the past few months, and they were ramped up to daily services as ties grew closer.

Over the next few weeks, the task force members ramped up on the auto industry and studied GM's turnaround strategy.

Such fears have ramped the price of gold up to an incredible $1, 545 a troy ounce, up almost sixfold in a decade.

European telecoms equipment providers did it to less than great effect when third-generation networks first ramped up.

Just before it was being ramped up for distribution, the project was cancelled.

China's military might has increased by leaps and bounds over the past twenty years as it has ramped up spending.

We've probably ramped back in most regions again as the economic crisis has started to spread.

AOL, one of largest online trackers, recently ramped up promotion of privacy services that it sells.

Mr Wagoner has since ramped up Chinese operations, lining up a string of highly profitable joint-ventures and assembly operations.

The trouble with using hens' eggs for making killed or attenuated vaccines is that production cannot be ramped up quickly in an emergency.

China's export-financing arm has ramped up in the past decade to support its exports.

Smart employers are toying with ways to keep the door to "off-ramped" female staff ajar.

New workers can now be hired at lower rates than those ramped up by the United Auto Workers during the boom years.

China, according to industry experts, has significantly ramped up spending in the last two years.

Roche had ramped up production of the drugs a few years back when fears about avian flu were rising.

Airports around Asia on Monday ramped up the use of scanners designed to detect elevated temperatures in arriving passengers .

The government has recently ramped up efforts to tighten regulations and root out food safety violators in a state-backed media campaign.

Demand for solar products in general has decreased during the recent global financial crisis, yet production has ramped up.

to provide a ramped connection between the existing street level system and the underground extension.

Mr. James's destination has been the subject of ramped-up speculation for two years.

China's ethanol producers ramped up production of corn-based ethanol, consuming an increasing portion of the country's annual corn output.

which has ramped up production after the March earthquake much faster than Toyota and Honda, have been gaining customers.

China power companies have been big purchasers of GE turbines in the past several years as the country has ramped up its electricity supply.

With stocks already up nearly 50% from their March lows, however, worries have ramped up that the market may be set for a pullback.

Production of ethanol made from corn has also ramped up dramatically in recent years, cutting into the need for other fuels.

It was important to get those established early so additional developers could join the project and get ramped up quickly.

Spacious guest lifts readily accommodate wheelchairs , and all entrances are ramped .

Now, in place of dancing and stories, he ramped up the pyrotechnics.

It has ramped up tomato paste exports in a handful of years.

Mr. Obama said 'ramped up negotiations' in New York would move the sanctions forward 'in the coming weeks. '

In addition, computer-driven high-frequency traders have ramped up their trading, adding to a surge in trading volume.

As China has moved steadily into auto manufacturing in the past decade, it has ramped up production of auto parts.

Speculators have ramped up their bets against the euro in recent weeks to fresh record levels.

Simultaneously, the authorities have ramped up arrests and detentions.

We quickly ramped up, adding additional servers, upgrading hardware, and making sure we could meet demand.

The Pakistanis have also ramped up their intelligence-sharing with Washington.

But China ramped up its purchases, posting the biggest one-month increase since last October.

Then, as other banks ramped up their mortgage-backed business, JP Morgan largely dropped out.

Neurogenesis ramped way up, then, after several weeks, sputtered and slowed.

Splinter said that when the Singapore facility is fully ramped up by 2010, it will represent 30-40 percent of the company's turnover.

None had their food intake artificially limited or, as with livestock, ramped up.

While other lenders struggled, he ramped up his sales efforts.

The lightning extends around three meters, meaning he's ramped two car batteries to 9 million volts.

The Federation ramped up pressure on Mr. Wang to curb coverage by Ms. Hu.

Even before the financial crisis began, he ramped up public spending.

Facebook has since ramped up its pitch to Madison Avenue.

It already has ramped up lending and asset purchases.

Now, the most tenuous of news reports has ramped the talk up again.

The government ramped up its criticism of how federal judges handled terrorism cases.

Audi, which offered $4, 085 per car in June, ramped up its incentives by 50%, figures supplied by Autodata Corp. show.

Haier ramped up efforts to go global in 1999.

First she ramped up taxes on farmers, then last year she nationalised private pension funds.

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