Sentence examples for growing to almost from inspiring English sources

In the mid-1990's big youth gangs, modeled after gangs in El Salvador, began swaggering though poor neighborhoods and commercial centers alike, growing to almost 40,000 members who robbed pedestrians and shook down bus drivers.

TechCrunch reports that 25bn connected objects will become live in 2015, with smart home devices growing to almost 25m in number by the end of the year, all providing real-time reporting on our behaviour.

Up until the early 2000s, Iceland's economy was export-driven, with fishing and aluminum smelting serving as the main industries, but after the deregulation of Icelandic banks the country's financial sector expanded in a major way, with the three biggest commercial banks in Iceland growing to almost 10 times the size of the Icelandic economy.

If, in fact, the trend continues to heat up, we're talking about 15 million smart wearable device sales in 2013 growing to almost 70 million in 2017, and a global market for smart wearables worth more than $1.5 billion by 2014, up from $800 million this year.

This plan will result in sales revenues growing to almost $420,000 by Year 3. The Pasta Tree is located in a 3,000 square feet facility that operates as a storefront and a production facility.

Since then, the share has grown to almost three-quarters.

The basking shark grows to almost 14 metres.

The total, with interest, had grown to almost $30 million.

The annual budget has grown to almost $30 million from $300,000.

A year later, that number had grown to almost a half a million, according to Google Analytics.

Vang's forces grew to almost 40,000 and provided a backbone of resistance against the Communists.