Sentence examples similar to had been ballooning from inspiring English sources

The costs of public-sector pensions have been ballooning in recent years.

The result has been ballooning bad debts (now up to £14bn) and a tanking stock price.

And their free cash flow per share, which has been ballooning, has been continuing to grow.

For years now, Halloween has been ballooning as an event in the UK, influenced heavily by the US.

Spending Reform: Our national debt has been ballooning at a rapid pace and now totals more than $19 trillion.

Funds have been ballooning in size as more money continues to flood into Silicon Valley, looking for higher returns than can be found elsewhere.

He observes that even financial firms undertaking massive capital increase and shareholder dilution have been ballooning.

Among those affected by spending cuts could be organizers of the 2018 World Cup, whose budget has been ballooning as the ruble's fall makes imported construction materials more expensive.

At the same time, supplies of pickup trucks and larger vehicles have been ballooning, creating concerns among analysts that the companies will start slashing prices to keep dealer lots from growing too crowded.

They said he had been a balloon pilot for eight years, flew several times a week and was well-known in his community for his flying prowess.

He used hydrogen, which is lighter than air, to fill balloons — not to heat air that had been fanned into balloons.