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It had a built-in tendency to produce ever larger booms and busts, and over the longer term it was bound to destroy itself.

Yet at some point the economies of scale are bound to run aground on the cost of upgrading ports to handle ever larger vessels.

For the moment, though, companies are amassing ever larger arsenals of patents.

If I don't pare down the DVR or reading pile soon, it will only grow ever-larger.

The trend in recent years has been towards ever-larger discounts: 15% might be typical in the 1990s, but 30% or higher is now common.

One possibility is that the developed world will attempt to inflate its debt away, perhaps by ever-larger doses of quantitative easing.

Since then, ever-larger slabs of the iron-rich red earth have been transported to China to make the steel for China's mammoth urbanisation.

Untreated, the disease spreads inside the body, leading to new swellings under the skin and ever larger lesions.

Praise is a mind-altering drug and needs to be prescribed in ever larger quantities to get the desired effect.

All the same, as Hollywood's profits shrink, China becomes an ever-larger part of the profit equation.

As ever-larger quantities of goods and services are produced, they have to be consumed.

Some young people are juggling an ever larger number of electronic devices as they study.

The rim of gas surrounds a nearly empty (but very hot) cavity, and over time the fast wind clears out an ever larger volume.

"That means there is an ever larger amount of money chasing a small amount of shares. "

One way to find out would be to try to put ever larger things in such states.

Today women are marching into the workplace in ever larger numbers and taking a sledgehammer to the remaining glass ceilings.

The finances of the family home -- often where the bulk of wealth is tied up -- are playing an ever larger role in life planning.

With the proceeds of the MCA sale his fortune grew ever larger from investments in art, shares and property.

The rainfall then travels via rivers to the sea in ever-larger amounts, and the cycle begins again.

Budget-conscious shoppers turned to the internet in ever-larger numbers to compare products and prices and pick up deals.

As the addict's toleration increases, he requires ever larger doses of the drug.

As the addict's tolerance increases, he requires ever larger doses of the drug.

That means the banks have few growth options beyond swelling their balance sheets with ever-larger volumes of loans.

Other particles within the disk collided and stuck together to form ever-larger bodies, including the Earth.

Internet firms, meanwhile, need ever larger amounts of computing power.

The spectre of official protests against the rear diffusers of three 2009-spec cars on Monday grew ever larger.

This advancement has facilitated the ability to trade ever-larger volumes of shares.

Large price increases will trigger off demands for ever larger wage increases.

That's different from western-style consumption on ever-larger houses or bigger cars.

Over the past decade, the US filled the (growing) gap as ever-larger borrower of last resort.

CIA paramilitary forces will play an ever larger role in Afghanistan.

But the markets have repeatedly tested that approach, requiring ever larger and more elaborate bail-outs.

As a result, firms are taking an ever larger share of the benefits of rising productivity.

The reason is that large and persistent imbalances drive ever larger capital flows, which can destabilise the global economy.

Ever larger companies can afford to bid ever more to get the manager they want, because he will leverage even more assets.

This yielded ever-larger piles of dollars to invest.

But as China looms ever larger in the global consciousness, anything we can glean about its leadership is especially valuable.

In 2009, Jay-Z is bigger than ever, but he isalso in need of ever larger audiences.

As more and more cars are produced and used, so the emission from their exhaust-pipes contains an ever larger volume of poisonous gas.

Well, yes, we can't keep racking up ever larger debts, can we?

Not only have we failed to learn from our mistakes, but also we're repeating them on an ever-larger scale.

Yuan has accumulated in ever larger amounts in Hong Kong's banking system.

Code sizes, and hence attacking surfaces growing ever larger and larger