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Michael Howard's credo that "prison works" contributed to an explosion in prison numbers.

That contributed to an explosion in the number of paparazzi chasing celebrities, which in turn led to more pictures, and prices leveled off.

A tourism boom and a flood of immigrants from China's interior contributed to an explosion of unrest among embittered Tibetans in March 2008.

China's currency became undervalued primarily because of questionable U.S. macroeconomic policies and inadequate oversight of the U.S. financial system that contributed to an explosion of liquidity and a debt-financed consumption boom fed, in part, by inexpensive imports from China.

Its latest report on the subject, released on March 20th, was no different: it argued that such failings contributed to an explosion in 2005 at BP's refinery in Texas City, Texas, which killed 15 people and injured 180.

That's contributed to an explosion of group chat activity on competitors like Telegram.

The truth is, those grim factories in Dongguan and the rest of southern China contributed to a remarkable explosion of wealth.

Gershwin said multiple factors could have contributed to a population explosion this season, but likely contenders included warming sea waters providing fertile breeding grounds, nutrient rich seas and a lack of natural predators for the juvenile jellyfish due to over-fishing.

Ruben M. Badalov, first deputy chairman of the Russian Coal Miners' Trade Union, said this policy motivated workers at the Ulyanovskaya mine to block top-of-the-line sensors with wet clothing, which contributed to a 2007 explosion that killed 110.

And one of its successful areas was its art market: the great painters Rembrandt, Frans Hals and Vermeer contributed to a cultural explosion known as The Golden Age.

Widespread air travel, mounting healthcare costs in developed countries, long waiting lists and an ageing world population have all contributed to a global explosion of medical tourism in the past decade -- and Asia is leagues ahead in terms of world market share.