Mortgage lending surged dramatically in March, returning to the peak levels last seen before the financial crash, as buy-to-let speculators and second home buyers rushed to beat the stamp duty tax deadline.
Some examples of this are obvious: Gary Hart surged dramatically to win the New Hampshire Democratic primary in 1984, even though he lost Iowa to Walter Mondale by more than 30 percentage points, because his results were better than forecast by polls and consensus expectations and he was deemed to have favorable momentum.
The Russians have already saved the Amur tiger from extinction, not once but twice: first in the nineteen-forties, when they became the first country in the world to declare the tiger a protected species, and again in the nineteen-nineties, when poaching surged dramatically and Inspection Tiger was created to combat it.
But Mr. Toledo surged dramatically in the last five weeks of the campaign after the candidacies of two other candidates were destroyed by a series of vicious personal attack campaigns appearing in the leading television networks and tabloid newspapers that were believed to be directed by Mr. Fujimori's intelligence service.
During the crisis, take-up surged dramatically.
Construction surged dramatically during the 1960s and 1970s, until the formerly low-rise City consisted almost entirely of buildings with 10 storeys or more (with the notable exception of the yamen in its centre).
A military offensive since May last year that was meant to dismantle their hold on the northeast has caused the militants to react in two ways: brutal attacks on civilians in the region have surged dramatically, and efforts to strike out in areas far from the rebels' strongholds have resumed.
The number of DNA patents - that is, US patents that refer to a DNA-specific term in their claims - surged dramatically during the 1990s (see Figure 1).
Over the past couple of years, Germany's wild boar population surged so dramatically that the tusked beasts became something of a menace - invading buildings, destroying crops and occasionally even attacking people.
"We're all on the same page that there's a dearth of hard data on cycling, even as biking surges dramatically," Mr. Norvell said.
The sea surges dramatically into a cobblestone cove below called Gulliver's Hole, a place that's especially spectacular on stormy days.
