Sentence examples for expanded by almost from inspiring English sources

In 2004-06 theconomymy grew on average by nearly 5% a year; in 2007, it expanded by almost 7%.

JetBlue did better, its average fare rising 22.4 percent to $135.64 compared with a year earlier, even as its capacity expanded by almost 14percentt.

The country created 150,000 jobs more than it lost last year, but the 26m-strong labour force expanded by almost the same number.

Alone among its neighbours, Chile has achieved sustained high growth: over the past eight years, the economy has expanded by almost 8% a year, while inflation has been brought down from 27% to 6%.

In the ten years to 2008, the total payroll in England expanded by almost 300,000 to nearly 1.4m, a rise of 28% 32%% on a full-time equivalent basis).

In 2004, Chile's gross domestic product is estimated to have expanded by almost 6.0%, up from 3.3% in 2003 and 2.2% in 2002, giving the country its highest growth rate since 1997.

With the economy expanding by almost 5percentthis yearar, unemployment is low, and a chronic budget deficit has been replaced with large surpluses.

The Yorkshire Dales national park will expand by almost 24% and the Lake District national park by 3%, creating a large and almost continuous protected area in north-west England.

Eric Combelles, an analyst at Euromonitor in London, which tracks the European ice cream market, predicted that it would expand by almost 8percentt by 2005, nearly double its growth since 1996.

Americans spent $1.15 billion on anti-aging cosmetics in 2002, according to FIND/SVP, a marketing research company, and the market is expected to expand by almost 50percentt in the next few years.

Even during the oil shock of the mid-1970s, woutpututput continued to expand by almost 2% a year.Today, despite all the talk of "globalisation", most economies are not notably dependent upon America, whose total imports account for a mere 13% of GDP.