Example sentences of "grow [adv] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Algae and other weed in the canal shows it is not used too often and some patches grow right across although it is not hard to paddle through them and the lengths of wood and other floating debris .
2 The dairy-type conformation does not lend itself readily to beef production and though steers will fatten they grow rather slowly .
3 If your crops fail , or grow much less prolifically than your neighbour 's , then it is due to witchcraft .
4 Some grow much better in damp places where the fish could nibble at them when they felt like it or if they needed to — in a similar way to a dog eating grass — and for much the same reason .
5 We could plant softwood trees which grow much quicker .
6 One unexpected observation was that the carrion-eating bees have an exceptionally high proportion of queen to worker cells in their nests , apparently because their high-protein diet makes worker bee larvae grow much faster than those of other species .
7 The Varga Plants , a wound from whose thorns replaces a man 's thoughts with an overwhelming urge to kill and turns him into one of themselves , grow naturally only on the planet whose laboratories have developed them : Skaro , home of the Daleks .
8 Bones which grow so fast need lots of calcium .
9 Children grow so fast — we see Ewan about every month or six weeks , and there 's always a big change .
10 Some seeds are difficult or very slow to germinate , and grow only slowly into full-size plants .
11 This environment is far worse for lichen growth than any known in the Arctic and if we conservatively assume that the Antarctic lichens grow only half as quickly as those in the north , the former with a present diameter of 100 mm must be easily 10 000 years old and perhaps considerably older .
12 As the danger to Turkey recedes , the number of restrictions seem to multiply : the country 's nerves grow daily more touchy .
13 It also meant allowing money supply to contract , or grow less rapidly , when deflationary fiscal policies were pursued .
14 ‘ I suppose the unusual thing about the allotment is that I grow just about everything , ’ he said .
15 Gas imports will reach some 70 MTOE by 1990 but grow more slowly subsequently as gas supplies from Alaska increase .
16 Traditionally reared animals grow more slowly than those reared under intensive farming conditions — they are therefore more mature and are hung for two or three weeks to bring out the flavour .
17 Plants may come into leaf earlier ( leading to frost damage ) , grow more slowly , have more branches and smaller leaves , produce fewer flowers , or have lower oil and protein contents .
18 Both grass and clovers recover and grow more quickly when grazed hard for a short period and then rested for two to three weeks than they do under continuous nibbling .
19 New varieties of cotton grow more rapidly and quickly pass through their most vulnerable phase ( when the carpal surrounding the cotton is thin ) .
20 Even if these animals eat the same restricted amount every day , they still grow more rapidly in the summer than in the winter .
21 And it is here , on matters of assessment , that TNC and ISS grow further apart .
22 Nearly 70 per cent of these stumps later resprout and grow once more .
23 Crops grow quickly once the weather improves .
24 And the Kids from La Fama grow ever more possessive .
25 And the Kids from La Fama grow ever more possessive .
26 And the Kids from La Fama grow ever more possessive .
27 ‘ And they see us — and seeing us garbed thus , they grow ever more surly , refusing now to carry out all but the most basic tasks .
28 As sponsorship tightens its grip on British life , the combinations grow ever more incongruous .
29 Its unusually long horns grow slightly backwards and then outwards before sweeping obliquely forwards and often downwards and then inwards towards the face .
30 Few infant mammals grow as quickly as an elephant seal pup .
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