Sentence examples for expanded by around from inspiring English sources

By contrast, in 2001, despite much talk of "the mother of all recessions", global GDP per head expanded by around 1%.

Globally, it emerged that wind power had expanded by around 20% in 2012 and several countries, notably Spain and Germany, set new records for how much wind power they generated.

So the decision is not much of a blow, but it comes at a bad time for the carrier, which has expanded by around 50% in each of the past two years.

The smartphone market as a whole expanded by around 50% over the same period, while Apple's iPhone sales grew by 16% to 102m in the first nine months of 2013.

It says their number swelled by 6% last year to 199,235, and that their combined net worth expanded by around $2trn – which is roughly the same as the GDP of, say, Russia or India – to $27.7trn, which equates to approximately 40% of the world's GDP.

By 2025 the number of inhabitants is projected to grow by about 15%; in Brazil it will expand by around 10%.

Not only is it the only country expected to achieve double-digit growth, its economy will expand by around 25%, miles ahead of the rest.

Its defence budget is thought to be expanding by around 12% a year, though its real size is the subject of conjecture.

The OECD expects Mexico's economy to expand by around 4% in both 2005 and 2006, well above the average pace of GDP growth in the so-called "rich-man's club".

Most long-term predictions suggest that, despite weak growth over the past couple of years, the total of freight-tonne kilometres flown will expand by around 6% a year over the next couple of decades (see chart).

The euro climbed to a fresh high of $1.486.The Federal Reserve expects GDP in America to expand by around 2.5% in 2010, a fairly gloomy assessment of medium-term growth prospects.