Example sentences of "grow [prep] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since its launch in 1988 , sales of OS/2 have grown to only about 300,000 a year . |
| 2 | The OECD says that the American economy will grow by only a shade less than 1% in 1991 , while Japan will manage nearly 4% and Germany ( despite the difficulties of unification ) 3% . |
| 3 | Output will grow by only 2.2% this year , well down on last October 's prediction of 3.6% . |
| 4 | Hadley ( 1985 ) also documents the poor success rates of many development projects in African savannas where , overall , crop and arable production have grown by only 2 per cent , necessitating a massive increase in food imports . |
| 5 | The economy had grown by only 0.6 per cent over the four years to the end of 1990 , and actually shrank by 0.3 per cent during 1990 itself . |
| 6 | Also the grass grows for only a short-season , and the amount of hay which can be cut and dried varies from one year to the next . |
| 7 | For the smaller aquarium the Lubbock 's Fairy Wrasse Cirrhilabrus lubbocki is eminently suitable , as it grows to only about 7cm . |
| 8 | Not surprisingly the British economy had been growing at only about half the average annual rate of 5.4 per cent for the EEC countries since 1953 . |
| 9 | With consumption growing at only about 1 per cent a year ( the rate of growth of the labour force ) , the system would have become one in which machines were being installed at hectic rates in order to produce other machines . |
| 10 | The Japanese economy is expected to grow by only 3.8% during fiscal 1991 compared with this year 's 5.2% . |
| 11 | But during the 1990s the workforce is expected to grow by only 0.5–0.7% a year . |
| 12 | Many forecasters expect France 's economy to grow by only 1.5% in 1991 , down from 4% in both 1988 and 1989 and from an estimated 2.6% last year . |
| 13 | The Fund now expects it to grow by only 1.3% this year , down from an ambitious 3.8% last year . |
| 14 | Even in 1994 , Germany 's economy is expected to grow by only 1.4% . |
| 15 | Yet during the same period the acreage devoted to export crops grew from only 15.5 million hectares to 17.2 million ; of the seven major export crops the production volume of only three : tea , cotton and tobacco , increased . |
| 16 | Money-supply growth is slowing : M2 plus CDs , the favoured measure , grew by only 7.3% year-on-year in January , after growth had peaked in May at 13.2% — the steepest slowdown since 1973 . |
| 17 | The broad measure , M3 , grew by only 1% in the 12 months to December , and actually fell for the last three months of 1990 . |
| 18 | Employment in industry and services , which gained 2½ million workers from agriculture , grew by only around one-quarter , which seems modest in relation to the increase in the capital stock . |
| 19 | with the recession of the 1980s , however , agricultural production grew by only 1.6 per cent from 1981 to 1984 ( ECLAC/FAO ) 1985 ) . |
| 20 | Overall , audit fees for the FT-SE 100 grew by only 1.3% in 1991 — compared with a 2% growth rate in 1990 and 11% in 1989 . |
| 21 | True , industrial economies ' output was flat in 1991 and grew by only 1.5% in 1992 , while Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union suffered a serious slump , but in the developing world output has grown by an average of no less than 5% in the past two years , as many economies in Asia and Latin America have boomed . |
| 22 | In the hundred years before 1851 rural population grew by only about 0.5 per cent per annum , compared with almost 2 per cent in the towns ( Law 1967 ) , despite the heavier urban mortality . |
| 23 | Despite a natural increase of about 60,000 , the Belfast Urban Area ( population 612,000 in 1971 ) grew by only 3,000 between 1966 and 1971 , indicating a high level of out-migration . |
| 24 | During 1990 all pension funds total net assets grew by over 35% , whereas those of the life assurance companies grew by only 9.1 % . |
| 25 | Overall output grew by only 1.6 per cent , to 5,120,000 tonnes , the fall in Malaysian production being more than off-set by Thai , Indian and Chinese supplies . |
| 26 | Across its entire pharmaceutical division , which provides 56pc of turnover , sales grew by only 5pc . |