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As a result, the value of gold, which had been appreciating in the decade before the financial crisis, exploded, more than doubling in value between 2007 and the peak of the market in August 2011.

From Time • Jul. 2, 2013

Since the tankards had last changed hands in 1963 at a price of $47,600, mathematicians calculated that they had been appreciating at a rate of $1.80 per hour.

From Time Magazine Archive

The truth was that he had been appreciating in the past few days a truth of which the girl herself was as yet unconscious.

From The Camp Fire Girls in the Outside World by Vandercook, Margaret