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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a child grows up
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One in four children is growing up in poverty.
a company grows/expands
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The company has expanded year on year.
a growing deficit (= becoming bigger )
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Congress must slash federal spending to curb a growing deficit.
a growing industry
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Tourism is a growing industry in the many parts of the developing world.
a growing influence
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Many people are worried about the growing influence of these websites.
a growing sense of sth (= becoming stronger )
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She looked around with a growing sense of unease.
a growing shortage (= one that is increasing )
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The United States is facing a growing shortage of information technology workers.
a growing/increasing need
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She emphasized the growing need to deal with environmental problems.
a growing/increasing number
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An increasing number of women are entering the profession.
a growing/increasing/rising trend
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a growing trend towards globalization in world markets
a growing/widening gap
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There is a widening gap in the academic performance of boys and girls.
a legend grew (up) (= developed over time )
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The legend of his bravery grew after he killed the dragon.
a myth grows up (= starts )
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A number of myths have grown up about their relationship.
a number increases/goes up/grows/rises
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The number of mobile phones has increased dramatically.
a plant grows
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The plant grows to a height of about 20 inches.
a population grows/increases/rises
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Between these years the population grew by 40%.
a species grows somewhere (= used about plants )
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The species grows wild in Europe.
an empire grows
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As the empire grew, its new territories needed to be protected.
an industry grows/expands
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The clothing industry grew rapidly during the 1960s.
become/grow impatient (with sb/sth)
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We are growing impatient with the lack of results.
become/grow/get accustomed to sth
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Her eyes quickly became accustomed to the dark.
become/grow/get restless
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The children had been indoors all day, and were getting restless.
continue/grow/go unchecked
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We cannot allow such behaviour to continue unchecked.
escalating/growing violence (= violence that is becoming worse )
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There have been reports of escalating violence in the region.
exports increase/rise/grow
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Electronics exports grew more slowly than in previous years.
flowers grow
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Flowers were growing along the side of the road.
gain/grow/increase in popularity
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Extreme sports are growing in popularity.
gathering/growing darkness literary (= night that is slowly coming )
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The garden was almost invisible now in the gathering darkness.
get/become/grow worse
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The recession was getting worse.
get/grow/become maudlin
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Sir Ralph was becoming maudlin after his third glass of claret.
grew in stature (= became more admired or popular )
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He grew in stature during the campaign.
grow a crop
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Many crops are grown from seed every year.
grow a plant
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It is not an easy plant to grow.
grow bored written
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She grew bored and started gazing out of the window.
grow flowers
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He grows flowers as well as vegetables.
grow rich (= become rich )
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They have grown rich by selling this technology to other companies.
grow sth from seed (= grow a plant from a seed rather than buying it as a small plant )
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You can grow most vegetables from seed.
grow sth on a farm
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They grew wheat and barley on their farm.
grow to enormous etc proportions
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The fish grows to gigantic proportions.
grow to/reach a length of 2 metres/8 feet etc
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A blue whale can reach a length of 100 feet.
grow up in poverty
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No child should grow up in poverty in America in the 21st century.
grow vegetables
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If we had a garden, we could grow our own vegetables.
grow your hair (long) (= let it grow longer )
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I’m growing my hair long, but it’s taking forever.
growing consensus (= one that more people are agreeing on )
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The growing consensus is that we should focus on economic efficiency.
growing discontent
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Perhaps she sensed my growing discontent .
growing disenchantment
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Voters expressed growing disenchantment with the government.
growing medium
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a good growing medium for tomatoes
growing menace
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the growing menace of oil pollution at sea
growing pains
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the growing pains of a new republic
growing realization
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There is a growing realization that we must manage the earth’s resources more carefully.
growing/increasing importance
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the growing importance of the Internet as a source of information
growing/increasing inequality
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Income trends are shifting form increasing equality to increasing inequality.
growing/increasing resentment
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Soon growing resentment against foreigners erupted into violence.
growing/increasing/rising popularity
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This may be the key to explaining Celtic music's increasing popularity.
growing/mounting concern
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Growing concern has been expressed over the pollution of the North Sea.
growing/mounting criticism
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The government was faced with mounting criticism at home and abroad.
growing/mounting excitement
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The children waited with growing excitement.
growing/mounting opposition (= opposition that is increasing )
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There was growing opposition to the war.
growing/mounting unrest
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Rocketing unemployment led to growing unrest in the country.
growing/mounting/rising panic (= increasing panic )
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She quickly packed a bag, trying all the time to control her mounting panic.
growing/rising/increased expectations (= becoming higher )
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China's economy will grow considerably over the next five years, bringing rising expectations of wealth.
growing/rising/mounting anger
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There is growing anger among drivers over the rise in fuel prices.
grown fond of
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I’d grown fond of the place and it was difficult to leave.
grown...fond of
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Over the years we’ve grown very fond of each other.
grows tall
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This bush grows tall very quickly.
imports increase/rise/grow
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Imports increased by 13 percent last year.
increased/increasing/growing demand
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One of the problems is the growing demand for housing.
increasing/growing competition
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the growing competition between banks
increasing/growing/mounting/rising tension
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There are reports of increasing tension in some areas.
interest grows
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Interest in the project has steadily grown.
optimism grows
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His optimism grew as the time came nearer for his release.
profits rise/increase/grow
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Half of the firms surveyed expected profits to rise.
rapidly growing/changing/expanding etc
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the rapidly changing world of technology
reach/come to/grow to maturity
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These insects reach full maturity after a few weeks.
sales increase/rise/grow/go up
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Sales rose by 9% last year.
sb's excitement grows (= it increases )
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Her excitement grew as the day of the wedding came nearer.
sb’s confidence grows/increases
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Since she started her new school, her confidence has grown a lot.
suspicion grew
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Suspicion grew that the business was about to collapse.
the economy develops/expands/grows (= becomes more successful )
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The economy grew by 3% last year.
the growing/planting etc season (= for growing or planting crops )
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The growing season is short in these mountainous areas.
turn/grow cold (= become cold, especially suddenly )
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The birds fly south before the weather turns cold.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
by
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Between 1952 and 1981 electricity generating capacity grew by over 14% per year.
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At 357 feet high, the dam has grown by nearly a third.
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Buick's share of the market has grown by about a percentage point, to 6.5%.
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There he saw a poverty-wracked country that was growing by nearly 10 million people a year.
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His company has seen exports grow by over 50 percent a year for the past three years.
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The breach between them grew by itself, a result of misunderstandings, inadequate concessions and ineffectual violence.
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Its membership had grown by one-fifth in the last year to 7,335, he explained.
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Full-time female employment in the service sector grew by just 2000 or 4% between these years.
more
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Erica, although knowing none of this, had grown more scathing, with her outsider's eye. not less.
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Since she had seen him in Marlott, his face had grown more thoughtful.
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As the farmers who held out felt increasingly alone, their methods grew more and more violent.
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The puppet performance grows more venomous until the adventurers walk out or the puppets attack.
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The link between education and economic success has grown more and more important over the past thirty years.
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The door was pushed open and Zak Smythe, who grew more benign as the days went by, appeared.
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Its stock has grown more than 1, 000 percent in the past decade.
rapidly
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Their presence in London first developed following the relaxation of exchange control in 1958 and has grown rapidly since.
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Cidco, with revenues of $ 194 million last year, holds a 60 percent share of the rapidly growing market.
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Most of them have populations that are growing rapidly .
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It appears to be most damaging to rapidly growing organs in the body, Etzel said.
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In fact money supply grew rapidly and by 1989 inflation was over 8 percent.
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Sprint, an early entrant into the commercial Internet, has a rapidly growing Internet services business.
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The numbers of those on the waiting lists for housing has grown rapidly , as have the numbers of homeless in Britain.
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Bishop asserts that the most rapidly growing occupations require above-average skills and training.
slowly
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The traditional markets of western equipment companies are growing slowly , if at all.
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Their steady, reliable earnings growth attracts investors primarily when the economy is growing slowly or not at all.
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As time passed, the face in the picture grew slowly more terrible.
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The numbers of the bilingual service providers which are already mentioned are growing slowly .
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The demand for Navajo blankets slowly grew until the railroad arrived at reservation boundaries in 1881.
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Individuals feed and grow slowly , spending longer at each growth stage and ultimately producing fewer eggs.
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It was slowly growing louder and louder.
steadily
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Seb was forced to watch her grow steadily weaker.
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He grew steadily worse, you know.
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Owner-occupation has grown steadily , both nationally and in rural areas, since the 1950s.
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Although their love for each other was growing steadily , the emotion was tempered with suspicion.
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The list of transactions has grown steadily since Symington filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in September.
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It shows that the proportion of female enrolments has been growing steadily , though it is still some way short of parity.
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In addition, with transaction volume growing steadily , banks discovered that ATMs resulted in real cost savings.
to
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My hands would grow to twice their size and my head would shrink.
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Since its launch in 1988, sales of OS/2 have grown to only about 300,000 a year.
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It will grow to approx. 20 feet.
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Hospital waiting lists have grown to almost one million people awaiting treatment.
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Related species often grow to twice the diameter.
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Under John Irvine's leadership the 100 who came have grown to over 300 in three years.
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The average female specimen grows to about 10 centimetres in length, and the male 3-4 centimetres longer.
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By 1989, this had grown to about 55,000 solicitors and 5000 barristers.
up
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The implications for understanding development as people grow up and become parents and for the delivery of health care are examined.
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He grew up in New Hampshire, a cherubic child with cheeks like Freestone peaches.
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You never thought that being grown up would mean having to be quite so - how can I put it?
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Burnished visuals are a plus in this memory piece about a boy growing up in Depression-era South Philadelphia.
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She wanted to grow up , get married and have children.
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But you also have to grow up and find a way of developing and maintaining good relationships.
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But it got finished eventually, and Ellis and his brothers and sisters all had room to grow up in it.
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How many young boys grew up longing for such distinction?
■ NOUN
business
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The value of the business grew fivefold from 1979 to 1990.
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His interest in the business grew after reading trade magazines and other material about the business.
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Meanwhile Hobor predicts that the speciality chemical businesses will continue to grow through small niche acquisitions as well as internal growth through new products.
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This becomes part of your mission statement and will help you focus as your business grows .
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The £30,000 capital with which George and Marie had started in business had now grown to £140,000.
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The penalty imposed by big government for expansion in business is a growing burden of responsibility, paperwork and liability.
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McKinsey rarely acquires other businesses , preferring to grow organically.
child
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The child Nizan grew up in the shadow of death.
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The children can grow up together, they will be inseparable.
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Landscapes are peaceful and unscarred, animals roam free, children never grow up and work is virtually non-existent.
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In Britain, despite growing national prosperity, one in four children is growing up in poverty.
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There is a drawing of the mail-order pantsuit she purchased for job interviews when her children were grown .
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As closing time drew near, the children grew less.
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The child grows up with intimate forms of speech, but requires the deferential forms in later contact with the world.
crop
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Farmers grow only a few crops , while gatherers pick from a vast range of wild plants.
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Some villagers, those with capital, established rubber smallholdings, or grew other crops for the market.
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The population increased: so did rice production: so did the growing of new crops .
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Ohio-valley dwellers of this time were farmers, and pollen tests show that they grew the crop .
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Enormous discipline would be necessary to run the irrigation systems necessary to grow crops .
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Many people in other parts of the world grow crops for their own use.
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Its members live in a forest, and every year they take more of it to grow crops .
demand
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Soon the demands grew so heavy the photocopier could not cope, and originals began to fly about the system.
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As the demand grows , so does the dolphin kill.
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And as demand for their meat grows , the breed looks as if it's been saved by its bacon.
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And the demand is growing all the time.
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According to Johansson, government planners typically assess how energy demand has grown alongside economic growth.
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The demands grow ever greater, not least in terms of assorted representative fixtures.
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The demand for coal grew and grew.
economy
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With the economy growing so quickly, there is a case for a smaller deficit or for a surplus.
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Where economies grow , fewer people are poor.
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We must make sure that as the economy grows , borrowing slows.
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How, then, do we make the economy grow and devise an equitable allocation of its fruits?
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The economy may be growing , official figures for April suggest.
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That is the way in which they think that they can make the economy grow .
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Yes, the pre-1930 economy probably grew much faster than the economy does now.
grass
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The grass , grown from seed, just held its own against the weeds.
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Weedy thickets and tall grass grew under occasional trees.
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Even grass grows so thinly that cattle can't feed properly.
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If grass had ever grown there, every blade had been trampled to death long ago.
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Torrents of love to make the grass grow , Persephone's moist breath in the rising corn.
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Thus, grass grows asexual runners to propagate locally but commits its sexually produced seeds to the wind to travel farther.
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The gates are barred, the grass grows long, the paint peels.
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After all, this was top-quality grass , grown out of top-quality soil.
percent
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Sales in the year to August grew by 19 percent to £131m, while operating profits were up 17 percent at £22.1m.
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Bureau of Labor Statistics data show real wages have grown only about 10 percent between 1960 and 1994.
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Mr. Mellor United Kingdom exports have grown 23 percent . over the past five years, and reached record levels during 1991.
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The economy, once projected to grow about 4 percent this year, is expected to shrink about 2 percent.
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Coles' profits have grown only 3 percent in the last three years.
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Gross domestic product was estimated to have grown by 8.3 percent during 1989.
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Private economists polled by Bloomberg Business News project the economy will grow 1. 9 percent this year.
plant
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Another easy plant to grow which does not make special demands.
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Sow now, directly in the ground, where the plants are to grow , then thin.
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This plant grows abundantly over the whole aquarium and produces fine visual effects with an underwater light source.
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The fields flood in winter and in summer dry and starve because every plant grows to the same depth.
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Phosphorus is a nutrient used in fertilizer that helps plants grow .
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A plant growing from the top of a dry wall.
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But in due course the supply of energy will be exhausted and the plant will stop growing or possibly die.
population
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Its population has grown by two-thirds since 1970; it now stands at 1.7m.
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And as the country got wilder, the population grew thinner and loveliness increased in direct proportion to danger.
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As our population grows older, this is an idea whose time has come.
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The strategy worked: the population of Bauru grew to its current 300, 000 from 14, 000 in 1908.
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Most of them have populations that are growing rapidly.
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As population grew , a recipient got more money; cities losing population received less.
rate
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The simplest models assume that earnings grow at a constant rate of g percent per year.
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M3 grew at an annualized rate of just 1. 9 percent in the first 11 months of 1995.
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And it is a problem that is growing at a rate of several thousand tonnes of waste a day.
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But businessmen are scared of missing out on an economy that is now growing at tigerish rates .
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There was also an admission that the demand for water is not growing at the rate Thames Water had earlier predicted.
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Counterfeiting is a multi million pound industry and all the signs are that it's growing at an alarming rate .
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It is surprising that London did not industrialize and that the population continued to grow at such a rate .
seed
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The grass, grown from seed , just held its own against the weeds.
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Political passion does not grow from seeds as dry as these.
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If the soil is not right then the seeds will not grow .
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The produce is grown from varietal seeds chosen for flavor, not longevity.
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With all the new and reintroduced varieties now on the market there has never been a better time to grow from seed .
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Unlike hybrid strawberries, these can be grown from seed .
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We cut grass with a ride-on mower and dead head if not growing for seed .
tree
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A holly tree grew from the place where Scathach had lain.
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He found a place where a few trees grew so thick and close to the ground, no moisture could penetrate them.
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All varieties of plum, apple, and pear trees , grew in unison.
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Wood is scarce in the Sinai desert, but the acacia is one of the few trees which grow there.
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There also are successful family trees that grow both vertically and horizontally.
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They're better than lamp posts and that, cos trees grow out of the ground, so they're extra special like.
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But trees have managed to grow on the banks, and the sandy beds are ideal for horseback riding.
■ VERB
begin
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But soon, I began to grow restless.
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There was no sign of Gareth and fears began to grow for his safety.
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More people began growing cotton and their plantations be-came bigger and bigger.
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Ten years on, the economy has finally begun to grow faster than the population.
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I reach the top, look down, and begin to grow frightened.
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A little reputation outside the parish began to grow - that this was a curate who could talk.
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Then the water begins to grow calm again.
continue
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Most forecasts suggest that air travel will continue to grow at a little over 5 percent a year.
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They spend ever more on job training for welfare recipients, yet welfare rolls continue to grow .
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The need for these continues to grow .
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In the meantime, Sports Nation continues to grow , adding citizens -- er, members -- and programs.
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Expanded considerably, at least in population, during the early Norman periods it continued to grow .
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There is every indication that youth apprenticeships will continue to grow in the United States, but at a painfully slow rate.
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It's growing it will continue to grow.
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Cardoso pledged that inflation will continue to fall and the economy will continue to grow .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
absence makes the heart grow fonder
grow fat on sth
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These stock brokers grow fat on other people's money.
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Magnus grew fat on brown wholemeal scraps and Gina gave up trying to keep him away.
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The bull grew fat on his salary and expense account, but his performance was disappointing to say the least.
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They could see themselves growing fat on large-scale construction payrolls.
grow wild
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Frangipani grew wild and rampant up a grey cliff of limestone above the south bank.
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Often the verges had been left to grow wild and bushy.
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The mangoes grew wild on Tioman; no one seemed to claim them as private property.
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The plants grow wild along the banks of the rivers and inlets and the grains are harvested from a boat.
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The trees grow wild along the riverbanks and are harvested between January and June as the fruits ripen.
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They make that from sugar cane, which often grows wild here.
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Things we think of as exotic grow wild here, like the mimosa.
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Used extensively in local cuisine, the juniper grows wild in the hills around the medieval walled town of Gubbio.
grow/drift apart
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I think Dan and Tina just grew apart .
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If there is any twosome in a family likely to drift apart , it is a pair of brothers.
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Instead, it was suggested the couple, who married in their early 20s, had simply grown up and grown apart .
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Jabbing with the point he kept off Alexei's attack until the reaction of their mid-air collision made them drift apart again.
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Later in life, Lewis and his father drifted apart , never to be reconciled.
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Such barrenness is the inevitable outcome where two people are growing apart and out of love.
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We grew up, went off to different places, drifted apart .
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Work-inhibited students have not grown apart from their parents and become independent.
grown children/daughter/son
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I had two grown daughters, and when I lost the first one, this one became the apple of my eye.
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See more of his grown daughter and son.
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Seeing photographs of Rubilove Willcox Aiu in newspapers last Sunday was unexpected and bewildering for her grown children.
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Tall, slender and divorced, Sheila had-incredibly-two grown sons.
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The senator, 72, has a grown daughter by his former wife but is of grandfatherly vintage now.
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Yet her husband, laid off from his job as a messenger, and her grown children are unemployed.
grown man/woman
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Grown men in three-piece suits were playing video games.
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Elsie had never seen a grown man cry before.
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He' s a grown man - he should be able to cook for himself!
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She's crazy -- a grown woman letting a girl order her around like that.
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And the old Porsche 911 which has the same effect, but for very different reasons, on grown men.
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I was fourteen, but I guess I looked like a grown woman.
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In this story about Shep, he is a grown man and the prosperous owner of a silk mill.
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Nearly twenty years ago that was, and now you re a grown woman.
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No wonder that many grown women rebel against them.
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Not one grown man, aristocrat or peasant, is worthy of respect when you really know him.
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Several that I saw were very old, bearded, emaciated and grim and deathlike, instead of babies, grown men.
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She was a grown woman, she was entitled to take a bit of comfort as and when she pleased.
not let the grass grow under your feet
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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All this is necessary if we are to grow the business.
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Amy grew 6 inches last year.
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Are you growing a beard?
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As we grow old, we worry more about our health.
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Beth has grown quite a bit as an actress.
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China's economic output continues to grow at a remarkable annual rate.
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Demand for new cars is growing rapidly.
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Farmers in this area grow mainly wheat.
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Fears are growing for the safety of the missing children.
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Fiona was growing tired of being treated in this way.
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Her confidence grew, and soon she was able to go out driving on her own.
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I'd been waiting for forty minutes and I was beginning to grow uneasy.
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It's hard to believe how much the kids have grown.
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It's too cold for orchids to grow here.
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It's very satisfying growing your own vegetables.
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Jamie's grown three inches this year.
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Lower prices on inline skates have also contributed to their growing popularity.
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Mark's business grew rapidly in the first year.
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Our lawn has all kinds of weeds growing in it.
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Profits in the military aircraft business grew by 28% to a record $905 million.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And despite the rickety infrastructure, computer networks are growing fast.
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As he grew to manhood, Vologsky had accepted that state of being as both normal and even desirable.
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He used to long for his holidays and grow deeply depressed when they drew to an end.
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Her household has grown since then.
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That staff should grow to 30, he said, and many new employees are likely to be former Polaroid workers.
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The most outrageous examples involve force-feeding massive doses of sugar substitutes to white laboratory mice, who eventually grew tumors.
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The traditional markets of western equipment companies are growing slowly, if at all.