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单词 growth
释义
growth
(grθ )
Word forms: growths
1. uncountable noun B2
The growth of something such as an industry, organization, or idea is its development in size, wealth, or importance.
...the growth of nationalism. [+ of]
...Japan's enormous economic growth.
...high growth rates.
2. uncountable noun [oft a NOUN] B2
A growth in something is an increase in it.
A steady growth in the popularity of two smaller parties may upset the polls. [+ in]
The area has seen a rapid population growth.
The market has shown annual growth of 20 per cent for several years. [+ of]
3. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
A growth industry, area, or market is one which is increasing in size or activity. [business]
Computers and electronics are growth industries and need skilled technicians.
Real estate lending has become the biggest growth area for American banks.
4. uncountable noun
Someone's growth is the development and progress of their character.
...the child's emotional and intellectual growth.
Different teachers make different contributions to a student's growth.
5. uncountable noun
Growth in a person, animal, or plant is the process of increasing in physical size and development.
...hormones which control fertility and body growth.
Cells divide and renew as part of the human growth process.
Synonyms: development, growing  
6. variable noun
You can use growth to refer to plants which have recently developed or which developed at the same time.
This helps to ripen new growth and makes it flower profusely.
Pinch out the tips of the young growths to make for compact, bushy plants.
Synonyms: vegetation, development, production, sprouting  
7. countable noun
A growth is a lump that grows inside or on a person, animal, or plant, and that is caused by a disease.
This type of surgery could even be used to extract cancerous growths.
Synonyms: tumour, cancer, swelling, lump  
Quotations:
Great oaks from little acorns grow
Collocations:
average growth
For the country's eight biggest lenders, average profit growth was just 0.7 per cent.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
They show an average annual sales growth of 81% over three years.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
They put the average growth of British house prices over the past decade at 117 per cent.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
boost growth
Increasing investor confidence and well-informed government policies are combining to boost growth.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The government could claim that their policies will boost growth next year.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Higher government borrowing does usually boost growth in the short term.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
capital growth
If you are looking for an investment return, you are going to see better capital growth in the most expensive areas.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Choose a property with potential for capital growth that will be easy to let when the kids move on.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Now they are seeking investments that will deliver strong rental returns as well as steady capital growth.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
continuing growth
Management are confident that they will see continuing growth next year, a belief that explains the 10 per cent growth in the workforce.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Overall, both surveys pointed to continuing growth but at a slower pace.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The report said that there had been continuing growth in house prices across the country for nearly a year.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
dividend growth
They are one of a select band of companies that have delivered 26 years of unbroken dividend growth.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
It is promising dividend growth of 10% this year.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
They think this sector will show the fastest dividend growth.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
double-digit growth
It's the third month of double-digit growth in new car sales.
The Sun (2013)
Services and industry are recording double-digit growth and account for 80 per cent of GDP.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
That is in contrast with the double-digit growth experienced by firms across the City in the previous four years.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
employment growth
Britain is likely to see only modest employment growth in the services and manufacturing sectors in the coming year.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
But the economy's firmer tone, reflected in strong employment growth, will persist.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Employment growth continues to be strong, though its pace has slowed a little in recent months.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
enjoy growth
The North East and Wales are enjoying the strongest growth with a balance of 11 per cent and 12 per cent of employers planning to take on staff.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
No other asset has risen in value quite as much, or is likely to enjoy such growth again.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The country has enjoyed uninterrupted growth for each of the past eight years.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
export growth
Export growth last month was up 4.9 per cent on the previous month, compared with a rise of 9.6 per cent in October.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
There is also some evidence of an improvement in export growth, perhaps a benefit of the lower price of Sterling.
The Sun (2013)
And UK manufacturing data signalled a worrying drop in export growth.
The Sun (2010)
forecast growth
It had been forecasting profit growth of 15 to 20 per cent.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The Bank is forecasting growth of 3.4 per cent this year.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Growth is forecast to slow to 2.2 per cent next year.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
fuel growth
At the same time, steadily rising house prices have helped to fuel the growth in profits.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Such innovations fuelled the growth of legal aid firms.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
It plans to raise external cash to fuel growth next year.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
further growth
It said the outlook for this year was healthy with further growth of 4.3 per cent expected.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
It said that a shortage of housing would support further house price growth in the coming years.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
There are huge opportunities for further growth.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
future growth
We now employ more than 130,000 people overseas, compared with 260,000 in Britain and we see most of our future growth coming from our overseas business.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
If shareholders approve the deal, the new group is expected to launch a €200 million rights issue to fund its future growth.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
These now contribute more than half of profits and are expected to provide the bulk of future growth.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
global growth
Above all, concern remains widespread about slowing global economic growth.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
More than a decade of global growth has come to a halt and consumers and businesses are under pressure.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Global growth should provide some support.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
growth occurs
For these reasons, diauxic growth occurs in multiple phases.
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All growth occurs at hyphal tips, with cytoplasm and organelles flowing forwards as the hyphae advance over or through new food sources.
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The reddish new growth occurs over the summer.
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Mycelial growth occurs by mitosis and the synthesis of hyphal biomass.
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Upon hatching, the larvae immediately enter hibernation, and only feed the following spring when the fresh growth occurs.
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growth pattern
This growth pattern is known as exponential growth.
McKenzie, James F. & Pinger, Robert R. An Introduction to Community Health (1995)
Craniometry and hand-wrist radiographic evaluation of the growth pattern further aided in strengthening the diagnosis.
Gundareddy N Suma, Manisha Lakhanpal, Manu Dhillon, Siddharth Srivastava 2014, 'Orofacial manifestations of congenital hypothyroidism: Clinicoradiological case report', Journal of Indian Academy of Oral Medicine and Radiology
Instead, they start out robust and follow the ancestral felid growth pattern, while maintaining their robustness compared to other felids.
Katherine Long, Donald Prothero, Meena Madan, Valerie J. P. Syverson 2017, 'Did saber-tooth kittens grow up musclebound? A study of postnatal limb bone allometry in felids from the Pleistocene of Rancho La Brea', PLOS ONE
growth projection
Two months ago global growth projection for 2013 was cut from 4.1 per cent to 3.9 per cent.
The Sun
The company came under pressure after lowering its annual revenue growth projection from more than 4 per cent to between 1 per cent and 2 per cent this year.
Times, Sunday Times
In five years' time, rental growth projections stand at about 2.5 per cent per annum.
Times,Sunday Times
It will accept growth projections for endowments of 6%, despite evidence that such policies have failed to meet their targets.
Times, Sunday Times
Growth projections for 2016 were cut from 1.9 per cent to 1.5 per cent.
Times, Sunday Times
growth prospect
It made what was supposed to be the flotation of a growth prospect look very similar to a refinancing.
Times, Sunday Times
Measuring it can provide critical insight into the economys growth prospects.
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The strategy seeks to leverage the growth prospects in the continent.
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However, growth prospects for the near and medium-term future are quite weak.
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Improved growth prospects have come with strong appreciation pressures from foreign exchange inflows, and a widening trade deficit.
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growth sector
This compares to an average loss of 4.6% for its peers in the global growth sector.
Times, Sunday Times
Its performance was previously 18.8% over one year, against 19.3% for the global growth sector, with a 5% initial charge and 1.25% annually.
Times, Sunday Times
As students become increasingly laden with debt, the largest growth sector could be the market for older gappers.
Times, Sunday Times
The occupation has wrecked such hope and turned anti-western sentiment into a regional growth sector.
Times, Sunday Times
The biggest growth sector was among the energy and utilities companies, which nearly tripled spending to more than 1 billion.
Times, Sunday Times
growth slowdown
There was not much of a growth slowdown at the end of 2014, and it should not last.
Times, Sunday Times
The growth slowdown that it anticipates will delay the bank from raising interest rates, though.
Times, Sunday Times
Question: will the world's economies now return the favour, and prevent a growth slowdown from morphing into a recession?
Times, Sunday Times
The growth slowdown will make the public deficit and debt worse and potentially unsustainable over time.
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Not only have the housingmarket data been terrible but survey data for services, manufacturing and construction show either significant growth slowdowns or declines.
Times, Sunday Times
growth slows
But with recent data showing our trading partners' growth is slowing we must not be complacent.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
This meant they used more food reserves and their overall growth slowed.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The ground is soft and the lawn growth is slowing considerably.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
growth spurt
Is she going through a growth spurt and in need of more food than last week?
The Sun (2016)
But their growth spurt across the pond has been hindered by a glaringly obvious gap in their motorcycle range.
The Sun (2009)
A global growth spurt is imminent.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Perhaps I need to prepare for a growth spurt.
The Sun (2016)
Women's football has enjoyed a boom and the Olympics could prompt a similar growth spurt.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
growth trend
Since then, despite tough moments, the global growth trend has been up, not down.
Times, Sunday Times
The weaker growth trend was most evident in consumer-facing sectors like hotels and restaurants and other personal services.
The Sun
Despite the decreasing growth trend of the agriculture and fishery subsectors, the sizeable growth rate of the forestry subsector more than compensated for the decrease.
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If there were no shocks, the economy would just continue following the growth trend with no business cycles.
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The vestry recognized the growth trend, but there was no room for any type of building expansion on-site.
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healthy growth
The good gardener gets rid of ugly sproutings to encourage healthy growth.
Times, Sunday Times
After all, healthy growth on the continent should mean higher demand for our exports.
Times, Sunday Times
He predicts healthy growth of 2.6 per cent for this year, slightly ahead of the 2.5 per cent consensus.
Times, Sunday Times
It's obviously difficult to measure, but here are several disciplines necessary for healthy growth.
Christianity Today
A lengthy period of ultra-low interest rates and healthy growth would be unprecedented.
Times, Sunday Times
impressive growth
Thanks to impressive growth last year, which saw pre-tax profits soar to 307m, the company's profit share pool reached 58m, to be divided among employees.
Times, Sunday Times
Some perennials put on impressive growth in a single year.
Times, Sunday Times
Last year all staff were given two days' additional holiday to say thank you for the company's impressive growth over the previous three years.
Times, Sunday Times
The impressive growth led to the decision to launch the online service and to speed up its store expansion programme.
Times, Sunday Times
It has also built an impressive growth record by consistently finding ways to counteract the deterioration of what was once its core business.
Times, Sunday Times
income growth
The drop was driven mainly by weakening income growth, which slowed to 2.4 per cent.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The trust aims to provide investors with capital returns and real income growth.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Home values are already heading higher despite depressed income growth.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
increase growth
Experiments showed that it could greatly increase the growth of the harmful bacteria.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The increased growth has been discovered in a variety of flora, ranging from tropical rainforests to British sugar beet crops.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
We were determined to try to increase growth and jobs.
The Sun (2011)
industrial growth
Industrial growth slumped last month to a seven-year low, and exports, imports, retail sales and fixed-asset investment all weakened.
Times, Sunday Times
The new interconnected systems that enabled military and industrial growth soon spread to other aspects of daily life.
Times, Sunday Times
A rise in activity in the mining and quarrying and oil extraction sectors pushed industrial growth up by 0.7 per cent between the quarters.
Times, Sunday Times
He even saw his own clothing lines as 'another destructive manifestation of an industrial growth economy toxic to nature'.
Times, Sunday Times
Industrial growth slowed to a seven-year low last month and, even more ominously, power generation was down 4 per cent, the first fall in a decade.
Times, Sunday Times
inhibit growth
The less myostatin produced, the less muscle growth is inhibited.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
In fact, small groups often can inhibit growth in two ways.
Christianity Today (2000)
Another theory argues that, following injury to the spinal cord, certain molecules emerge to inhibit the growth of nerve fibres.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
All of the mycoflora isolates were able to inhibit the growth of the pathogen.
Rita Noveriza, Tricita H. Quimio 2016, 'SOIL MYCOFLORA OF BLACK PEPPER RHIZOSPHERE IN THE PHILIPPINES AND THEIR IN VITRO ANTAGONISM AGAINST Phytophthora capsici L.', Indonesian Journal of Agricultural Science
Both complexes inhibit the growth of chronic myelogenous leukemia cells.
Ariane C.C. de Melo, Jaime M.S.V.P. Santana, Kelen J.R.C. Nunes, Bernardo L. Rodrigues, Nathalia Castilho, Philipe Gabriel, Adolfo H. Moraes, Mayra de A. Marques, Guilherme A.P. de Oliveira, Ívina P. de Souza, Hernán Terenzi, Elene C. Pereira-Maia 2019, 'New Heteroleptic Ruthenium(II) Complexes with Sulfamethoxypyridazine and Diimines as Potential Antitumor Agents', Molecules
investment growth
That would help to boost investment growth.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The amount you receive at retirement is the total pot of contributions plus any investment growth.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
If you withdraw the money for any other reason, you will lose the government bonus and any investment growth.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
limit growth
He has struck a deal with the airline's management to limit growth to 7.5 per cent a year.
Times, Sunday Times
Even with adequate water and sunshine, nutrient deficiency can limit growth.
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The cold and the snowpack combine to limit growth of lower-elevation plants.
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Research also demonstrates that glucose can inhibit extracellular agarase secretion (but not transcription), causing it to degrade within the cell and thus limit growth of the bacteria.
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More recently, some urban areas have adopted green belt policies which limit growth in the fringe of a city, in order to encourage more growth in the urban core.
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long-term growth
So how do we reshape our economy in a way that encourages long-term growth and helps us to avoid another crisis?
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Others are happy to cover the losses from savings because they are investing for long-term capital growth.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
But on their own they do not allow for investment to deliver long-term sustainable growth.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
moderate growth
Moderate growth has time to ripen and become strong.
Times, Sunday Times
It confirmed its forecast made earlier for moderate growth.
Times, Sunday Times
Economists had widely anticipated a cooling in the rate of economic growth before a resumption of moderate growth later in the year.
Times, Sunday Times
The best-performing sector last month was civil engineering, which registered moderate growth for the second consecutive month, while residential building activity was the weakest-performing area.
Times, Sunday Times
Other supermarkets had moderate growth.
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modest growth
Retail sales represent the backbone of the American economy, so expectations for only modest growth in sales for June are of some concern.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The country will end up pretty much where it is now, which, with modest growth and high employment, isn't too bad for many.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Output was flat, following a period of modest growth.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
negative growth
Negative growth of between 0.3 per cent and 0.5 per cent is expected for the final three months.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
He said GDP would keep growing until March before two consecutive quarters of negative growth.
The Sun (2012)
Consumer prices increased by 0.3 per cent over the month after three months of negative growth.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
organic growth
It said that it is aiming for 10 per cent annual organic growth in its nutrition segment while it will also be seeking to make acquisitions in the near future.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
They have 301 convenience stores and plan to expand the chain through acquisition and organic growth.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
The company has a proven record of organic growth.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
output growth
Service sector output growth was unrevised at 0.6 per cent.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Association is understood to be seeking a cap of 10 per cent on crude steel output growth this year to stabilise prices.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Yet rising employment ought to have brought with it higher output growth and higher incomes.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The second quarter will probably represent the high point of quarterly manufacturing output growth.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Each country's fiscal stimulus can be twice as effective in raising domestic output growth if its major trading partners also have a stimulus package.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
overall growth
Overall growth in the division was 7 per cent to $325 million.
Times, Sunday Times
Wrap's first declared target, to arrest the overall growth in packaging weight, was achieved last year, and it remains bullish about the rest.
Times, Sunday Times
Investors can expect a difficult ride with continued volatility, even if overall growth accelerates.
Times, Sunday Times
Overall growth in the grocery sector was 3.2 per cent in the period.
Times, Sunday Times
Roaring trade at the supermarkets helped the retail sector to achieve modest overall growth last month.
Times, Sunday Times
period of growth
Sky's advertising revenue was flat at 78 million, during a period of growth in the overall television market because of the resulting loss of viewers.
Times, Sunday Times
You, and those around you, are in a period of growth as disruptive as it will, ultimately, be profitable.
Times, Sunday Times
He resisted the idea of his friars attending the universities that were then in their first period of growth and expansion.
Christianity Today
Either way, it looks like being the slowest period of growth since the end of 2012.
Times, Sunday Times
The sector has now been in expansion for four successive months, its longest period of growth since the start of 2019.
The Sun
phenomenal growth
Their high-pressure sales techniques have led to a phenomenal growth in the number and value of claims for personal injury.
Times, Sunday Times
This group are also driving the phenomenal growth of 'click and collect'.
Times, Sunday Times
Acquisitions have helped enormously, but good management skill has driven the phenomenal growth in shareholder value.
Times, Sunday Times
The company has seen phenomenal growth in the past three years; as recently as 2009 the shares were trading at 300p.
Times, Sunday Times
Set up in 1895 to preserve and protect coastline, countryside and buildings, it has experienced phenomenal growth.
The Times Literary Supplement
plant growth
Mixing the organic matter into heavy soil improves drainage and subsequent plant growth.
The Sun (2012)
Photosynthesis competent autotrophy should be established during the postgerminative stage of plant growth.
Dongli He, Rebecca Njeri Damaris, Rebecca Njeri Damaris, Jinlei Fu, Jinxing Tu, Tingdong Fu, Xi Chen, Bin Yi, Pingfang Yang, Pingfang Yang 2016, 'Differential molecular responses of rapeseed cotyledons to light and dark reveal metabolic adaptations towards autotrophy establishment', Frontiers in Plant Science
Some isolates show beneficial potential for biocontrol, bioremediation and plant growth promotion.
Bruno Cuzzi, Yury Herasimenka, Alba Silipo, Rosa Lanzetta, Gianfranco Liut, Roberto Rizzo, Paola Cescutti 2014, 'Versatility of the Burkholderia cepacia Complex for the Biosynthesis of Exopolysaccharides: A Comparative Structural Investigation', PLoS ONE
Treatment with endomycorrhiza at the ex vitro transferring time was beneficial to acclimatization, improving plant growth and development.
Jeanette Inamine Miachir, Vera Lúcia Moretti Romani, Antônio Francisco de Campos Amaral, Marcia Ometto Mello, Otto Jesu Crocomo, Murilo Melo 2004, 'Micropropagation and callogenesis of Curcuma zedoaria Roscoe', Scientia Agricola
The aim of this work was to stimulate lady palm growth by applying the plant growth regulator gibberellic acid.
Armando Reis Tavares, Francismar Francisco Alves Aguiar, Monaly Sado, Shoey Kanashiro, Edison Paulo Chu, Giuseppina Pace Pereira Lima, Petterson Baptista da Luz, Valéria Aparecida Modolo 2007, 'Efeito da aplicação de ácido giberélico no crescimento da palmeira-ráfia Effect of gibbeerllic acid application on lady palm growth', Revista Árvore
predict growth
It also predicted growth of around 2.5 per cent for the next few years.
The Sun (2011)
We predict similar growth this year.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Future growth is predicted to be far less impressive.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
price growth
Over the next five years price growth across the country is expected to pick up and average 4.5 per cent a year.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Here, house price growth has outstripped salaries to make it less affordable to buy.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The end of 2018 saw the slowest pace of house price growth in a year.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
productivity growth
When demand comes back, so will productivity growth.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Productivity growth is also projected to be slightly slower.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Population growth and productivity growth are two of the main ingredients of economic growth.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
profit growth
In effect, investors are being asked for forgo an element of income in exchange for an acceleration in profit growth.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
That would represent profit growth of about 17 per cent for the year at a time when many high street stalwarts are struggling.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
But the prospect of vigorous profit growth appears no closer than before.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
projected growth
The third trend, of course, is that projected growth in retail space.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The company said yesterday that its projected growth did'not match our expectations '.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
promote growth
He said that holes could be dug into hard-standings and filled with compost and soil to promote the growth of vegetation.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Prebiotics are food ingredients that promote the growth of healthy bacteria.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
It is time to give city and county regions the powers and resources they need to promote growth.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Growth would make growing equality of opportunity possible and equal opportunity would promote growth.
Hirst, Paul After Thatcher (1989)
rapid growth
The rapid growth of index-tracking funds is another attraction for wouldbe foreign companies.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
A technology during its phase of rapid growth and spectacular success is usually small, quick and agile.
Dyson, Freeman Infinite in All Directions (1989)
Changing shopping habits have driven a rapid growth in high street convenience stores.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
On the positive side, they expect rapid growth in some areas of work, chiefly the construction industry and regulatory and compliance work.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Outside London the rapid growth of many old county towns provided an added stimulus.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
record growth
London was the only region tracked that recorded growth in prices.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The world's largest economy has recorded growth for ten consecutive quarters.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Durham recorded the highest house price growth of the top 20 university towns.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
reduce growth
The subsidy being cut will reduce growth, but prices are dropping.
Times, Sunday Times
Lower demand in the building sector helped to reduce growth to 0.3 per cent from the first quarter.
Times, Sunday Times
The dip will reduce growth across emerging markets as demand from the region's powerhouse slows.
Times, Sunday Times
It will certainly stimulate rather than reduce growth.
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If plants do not receive adequate rainfall or irrigation, the resulting drought stress can reduce growth more than all other environmental stresses combined.
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reduced growth
Larvae with their ventral eversible gland blocked were unable to create furrows and suffered reduced growth on poinsettia.
David E Dussourd 2015, 'Theroa zethus Caterpillars Use Acid Secretion of Anti-Predator Gland to Deactivate Plant Defense.', PLoS ONE
They showed reduced growth and survival suggesting recessive load or overdominance.
Otto Seppälä, Laura Langeloh 2016, 'Estimating Genetic and Maternal Effects Determining Variation in Immune Function of a Mixed-Mating Snail', PLOS ONE
remarkable growth
The print business has seen remarkable growth over the past two years with turnover rising from 71,000 to 130,000.
Times, Sunday Times
A quarter century of remarkable growth since the late 1980s was preceded by a half century of decline caused by a combination of bad policies and bad luck.
Times, Sunday Times
Which remarkable growth story would sour first?
Times, Sunday Times
Ministers and policymakers are beginning to have doubts about whether the remarkable growth in self-employment has been such a boon after all.
Times, Sunday Times
Still, that's a small price to pay for the remarkable growth that begins as a result of the alliances you form this week.
Times, Sunday Times
report growth
Over the 41 weeks to June 11 the company reported like-for-like sales growth of 0.7 per cent.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
New York reported the weakest growth, at 3.3 per cent.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Sellers are delaying selling because of next year's reported growth and buyers are trying to buy quickly.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
revenue growth
Against this background, franchise bids became increasingly ambitious, assuming perpetual revenue growth.
Times, Sunday Times
Yesterday's second-quarter guidance provided some respite despite the company's admission that the 12 per cent revenue growth rate had missed its expectations.
Times, Sunday Times
Strong competition was starting to hit revenue growth, the survey said.
Times, Sunday Times
The group predicted that mobile phone revenue growth for 2007 would be between 5 and 6.5 per cent.
Times, Sunday Times
Last year the services produced 110 per cent of revenue growth.
Times, Sunday Times
robust growth
What will you do if the economy doesn't return to robust growth?
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The video games, online advertising and book publishing sectors will enjoy robust growth over the next four years.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The huge cuts and robust growth required for this ongoing crisis to end are nowhere to be seen.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
sales growth
There is no doubt, though, that it is contributing to UK sales growth.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
As we have already determined that we require sales growth, we obviously do not want to restrict this, except in one area.
Finance for the Non-Financial Manager (1989)
Sales growth slowed from 26 % in the previous quarter to 15 %.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
show growth
Figures due out on Thursday are expected to show growth of 7.2 per cent in December, down from 15.4 per cent in November.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Figures showed economic growth of 0.3 per cent from January to March, raising hopes we may finally have shaken off five years of gloom.
The Sun (2013)
Early trading figures from retailers have shown growth, too.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
slower growth
House prices would edge down, thanks to slower growth and a state housebuilding programme to combat chronic undersupply.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Although it warns of slower growth ahead, business remains buoyant.
The Sun (2016)
We are about to enter a period of much slower growth in public spending.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Tungsten limitation resulted in slower growth and the expression of a molybdenum-dependent isoenzyme.
Alexander Schmidt, Marco Frensch, David Schleheck, Bernhard Schink, Nicolai Müller 2014, 'Degradation of acetaldehyde and its precursors by Pelobacter carbinolicus and P. acetylenicus.', PLoS ONE
sluggish growth
In his speech to the board of trade, he forecast sluggish growth in the third quarter.
Globe and Mail (2003)
The prosperity of the postwar era gave way to a period of instability marked by sluggish growth and deindustrialization.
Smithsonian Mag (2018)
Economic growth is already sluggish.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
solid growth
Plant fruit trees, so they are established by spring and ready to make solid growth.
Times, Sunday Times
The company continues to report solid growth but, on a rating of 20 times future earnings, investors should hold.
Times, Sunday Times
It continued to achieve solid growth in revenue per available room (revpar) of 7 per cent for the year.
Times, Sunday Times
The result will be 'solid growth in consumer spending'.
The Sun
The biggest contributor to the increase was business services and finance, which rose 2 per cent, but hotels and restaurants also recorded solid growth.
Times, Sunday Times
spectacular growth
Armed with small digital cameras, they have documented the spectacular growth of the demonstrations from crowds of a few hundred to as many as 100,000.
Times, Sunday Times
Directors and employees have cooperated with prosecutors across the region, providing evidence of a pervasive 'kickback' scheme that helped the company's spectacular growth.
Times, Sunday Times
All 15 start-ups have had spectacular growth rates, with their average annual rates measured over two years ranging from 194% to 597% a year.
Times, Sunday Times
This has fuelled the spectacular growth in its international sales, which have rocketed 416% a year, from 1m in 2007 to 27.8m in 2009.
Times, Sunday Times
The market has experienced spectacular growth over the past decade.
Times,Sunday Times
spending growth
Cutting spending growth below this rate will be hard, given all the upward pressures on health, defence, law and order etc.
Times, Sunday Times
Did a cut, for instance, mean an absolute reduction in spending or simply slowing spending growth?
Times, Sunday Times
Item now expects consumer spending growth to drop to 1.4 per cent this year, from 1.7 per cent in 2018.
Times, Sunday Times
This means a big contrast in plans for public spending growth.
Times, Sunday Times
Consumer spending growth slowed sharply in the quarter, to 0.4 per cent, down from 0.9 per cent in the previous three months.
Times, Sunday Times
spiritual growth
If it's all you're about, you have no time for spiritual growth.
Times, Sunday Times
We began to wrestle with whether what we'd been doing was actually seeing genuine spiritual growth or if it had simply become familiar.
Christianity Today
I'm hardly in the advanced stages of spiritual growth, but becoming aware of my sloth has advanced my spiritual growth.
Christianity Today
But spiritual growth cannot come merely by adjusting the angle of view.
Christianity Today
The board room can be a place for spiritual growth.
Christianity Today
spur growth
If the president is serious about using exports to spur growth he will have to do a lot more than set up task forces and advisory committees.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
He said that the change would help to spur economic growth.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The crisis spurred the growth of the suburbs.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
stable growth
With five years of stable growth ahead, now seems the perfect time to start.
Times, Sunday Times
A gradual transition was under way from a 'highgrowth era to a relatively stable growth era', he said.
Times, Sunday Times
The emphasis was on reducing inflation through monetary and fiscal discipline as a means of producing the conditions for stable growth.
Times, Sunday Times
When the dislocations caused by the lockdown pass, security should deliver stable growth, bolstered by faster growth from the cash technology division.
Times,Sunday Times
Faced with a business that can show years of continual, stable growth, banks are willing to lend and back local entrepreneurship.
Times, Sunday Times
steady growth
During the past decade we have seen a steady growth in sales all over Europe.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Now they are seeking investments that will deliver strong rental returns as well as steady capital growth.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The company has enjoyed steady growth.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
stimulate growth
It doesn't have a large debt overhang and it has more policy levers available to stimulate growth than in most other countries.
Times, Sunday Times
If we expect a building to stimulate growth or increase giving, we will be disappointed: a building only provides space where people might do ministry.
Christianity Today
Our efforts must begin with swift action to stimulate growth.
Times, Sunday Times
Business leaders welcomed the decision, saying it would stimulate growth.
The Sun
Labour, he says, would be far more proactive about trying to stimulate growth.
Times, Sunday Times
strong growth
The division benefited from strong growth in its tar sands and mining services.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
They are looking for a story and for strong growth potential.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
This will provide the impetus for further strong growth.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
High inflation did not do it, nor did strong growth.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
He said that the global economy may now have reached a turning point after five years of strong growth.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
stunt growth
For technology companies in particular, many of which look abroad for developers, an exit could create difficulties and stunt growth.
Times, Sunday Times
This fungus can stunt growth and leave the plant open to pests and diseases.
The Sun
However, taking on an excessive debt obligation may actually stunt growth if it creates anxiety, thereby sapping vision, vitality, and strength.
Christianity Today
They've always said a lack of sleep can stunt growth.
The Sun
Poorly controlled asthma can be lethal - and will stunt growth.
Times, Sunday Times
stunted growth
Poor skin, frequent infections and stunted growth can occur through having too little zinc.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Experts say it puts them at risk of illness and stunted growth.
The Sun (2008)
The fish suffered stunted growth and also stopped avoiding predators.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
substantial growth
On the other hand, the catharsis of losing that third and the construction of the new building might result in greater effectiveness and substantial growth.
Christianity Today
It will cast further doubt on the oil industry's ability to continue to meet demand for substantial growth in oil supply.
Times, Sunday Times
That prospectus talked of a 'structural shift' in the delivery industry and 'e-commerce driving substantial growth'.
Times, Sunday Times
For many entrepreneurs, working with a home shopping channel has brought substantial growth.
Times, Sunday Times
The real catalyst for substantial growth will be entrepreneurs with the drive and passion to start their own businesses.
Times, Sunday Times
support growth
This would support growth in the US and Europe.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Plainly put, nations burn fossil fuels not to annoy the environmentalists but because they support economic growth.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
So our first goal must be to agree the action needed to support growth.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
sustain growth
Following the hard work of the last two or three years, the foundation is now strong and healthy for sustained growth.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
The coalition of interests that sustained the growth of council housing arguably no longer exists.
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Acquisitions suggest that it may be struggling to sustain growth from established operations.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
sustainable growth
Why is it acceptable for a business manager to focus on short-term gains at the expense of long-term planning for sustainable growth?
Globe and Mail (2003)
But this kind of growth is not sustainable .
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
"We have begun a significant restructuring program and are now in a better position to deliver sustainable growth going forward"
canada.com (2005)
sustained growth
Economically, after inflation had been cut in 1991-92, it opened the door for the sustained growth that followed.
Times, Sunday Times
However, it said that sustained growth since 2009 had led to more people being exposed to jet noise around several airports.
Times, Sunday Times
If we are to convert hard fought economic improvement into sustained growth, we must strive to influence political opinion and democratic outcome.
Times, Sunday Times
The reality was that the low point of 1993 was followed by 16 years of sustained growth.
Times, Sunday Times
It marks two and a half years of sustained growth across the sector, driven by a rise in commercial building, housing and civil engineering work.
Times, Sunday Times
traffic growth
It forecast passenger traffic growth of 4.6 per cent, driven by growing middle classes, and 44,040 aircraft deliveries worth $6.8 trillion between now and 2038.
Times, Sunday Times
That was before it learnt of tolls, taxes, licences, rationing and capacity restraints to curb traffic growth.
Times, Sunday Times
We must move on from failed 1980s-style roadbuilding and reduce and manage traffic growth.
Times, Sunday Times
Long-haul traffic growth rocketed 20 per cent.
The Sun
A corridor task force has been in place to study all the possibilities for managing the anticipated traffic growth.
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underlying growth
The underlying growth most economists think is happening now is much weaker, perhaps only 1%.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
He admitted that underlying sales growth was likely to slow because of changes in regulation of drug pricing in Europe.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
But this is still pretty strong underlying growth from a retail business.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
unprecedented growth
We have been going through an unprecedented growth in contemporary art.
Times, Sunday Times
Unprecedented growth began in the 1940s and boomed into the 1950s and 1960s.
Christianity Today
She said that the service had experienced 'unprecedented growth' in several complaint areas, with a rise in the number of cases related to payday lenders 'particularly acute'.
Times, Sunday Times
The buy-to-let market has seen unprecedented growth over the past two years, fuelled by a growing demand for rented homes.
Times, Sunday Times
After nearly a decade of unprecedented growth, the global economy may even shrink in 2009.
Times, Sunday Times
wage growth
But it is proving seriously expensive, because inflation and wage growth have been so sluggish.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Wage growth has slowed and inflation has picked up.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Another survey showed wage growth slowing.
The Sun (2010)
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Chinese: 生长
Japanese: 成長
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