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They began to swell to the point of absurdity.

In the four years ending with the next Summer Games in London in 2012, this could swell to, or even exceed, $7bn.

It is, however, not enough to wait for the local reputation of a cook to swell to national or even inter-national proportions.

Fearful everyone would be busy during Washington's party-gridlock season, I had let the guest list swell to a crowd of 30.

The water festival, which sees a city of around 1. 2m swell to more than double its normal size, has ever been a disaster waiting to happen.

Indeed, the Congressional Budget Office estimates the U. S. budget deficit will swell to record levels next year, rising to $438 billion.

When computer programs swell to billions of lines of code, just keeping them up and "alive" will become a major chore.

The London-based International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) expects that to swell to 150 in the next four years.

Japan's debt is projected to swell to about twice the size of its gross domestic product.

HSBC estimates that the currency's share of regional trade could swell to up to 50 per cent by 2015.

Swell: To increase in size or volume as a result of internal pressure; expand.

Thanks to you. Miss Watson, you've been real swell to her.

In extreme cases , such intense introspection may cause the brain to swell to dangerous dimensions. Trust me, it's worth the risk.

In extremed cases, such intense introspection may cause the brain to swell to dangerous dimension. Trust me, it's worth the risk.

According to the United Nations Population Fund, the urban-dwelling population will swell to nearly five billion by 2030.

Seen by small investors as utterly safe, these have seen their assets swell to more than $3. 5 trillion in the crisis.

Women get a bit more leeway and can swell to 90cm, or 35. 4 in.

It warns that in the absence of real job growth, those numbers could swell to over 100 million unemployed by 2020.

Including capital appreciation, the amount could swell to $12 trillion by 2015.

By 2015, the kids' high-end coat and jacket market may swell to $8. 6 billion, Euromonitor predicts.

But the amount is expected to swell to $377 billion by 2010.

If Mrs Clinton wins re-election, that 24 years will swell to 28.

The numbers were due to swell to 15, 000 before the Holy Ghost Night event concluded at 4am this morning.

Today, 155m of China's 1. 3bn people are over 65, and the number is expected to swell to about 260m by 2020.

As for the lacquer trees scattered here and there, they would probably "swell to death" for lack of sap-reaping;