An explosion is simply an exponential rise in heat.
Over the past generation there has been an exponential rise in the number of nongovernmental or religiously sanctioned cohabitations.
The idea seems to have caught on, with an exponential rise in the number of patents mentioning the word "biomimicry" having been filed in recent years.
South Sudan faced a "dramatic contraction" in its gross domestic product, a "massive depreciation" of its currency and an "exponential rise in inflation".
Jeremy Paxman: What about drugs, your target on drugs was to cut class A drug use by 50% by 2008, instead we have seen an exponential rise.
It should not be surprising that we have seen an exponential rise in hatred of minorities, the main pathology induced by political and economic shocks.
There is almost an exponential rise in the number of centres delivering learning, and that is going to cause a significant jump in cost".
The past 15 years have seen an exponential rise in the number of people sent to prison and in sentence lengths, and reoffending rates remain stubbornly high.
Warming may lead to an exponential rise in microbial activity, which would cause emissions to rise faster than the increase in vegetation could absorb them.
Co-author of the Growing Them Strong, Together report, Prof Muriel Bamblett, told the commission if the NT government had acted on recommendations delivered in 2011, it could have stopped an exponential rise in child protection notifications.
It also meant he would have to wait an extra year until he could sign his second N.B.A. contract; that is the time when N.B.A. stars can be rewarded with an exponential rise in their earnings.
