They lent to banks, purchased securities, financed securities, intervened in currency markets, tolerated immense increases in float (i.e., in the volume of checks written but uncleared).
Tuition at Rensselaer, like that of other private colleges, has seen immense increases in recent years.
A program designed by the country's military dictatorship in the 1970's to drive development was responsible for an immense increase in sugar output.
Perhaps the most significant factor, however, was the rise of the dealer to whom, according to The Art Journal (1871), "have been owing the immense increase in the prices of modern pictures".
Today's depression presumably won't be that bad, but it may cause a huge loss of output, an immense increase in the national debt, a swing to excessive regulation, a nasty bout of inflation, a decline in America's economic and geopolitical power, and increased political instability abroad.
Recently, immense increase in the number of automobiles on the road made driving difficult and unsafe.
The major concern in fully three-dimensional computations is the immense increase in the number of unknown variables.
In the early post-war period a number of newly developed innovations in the life sciences were made widely available, contributing to the eradication of some dreadful diseases and making an immense increase in harvest yields possible.
Mr Browne added that even if there was an immense increase in the resources made available, it was hard to see how the legally binding targets to reduce child poverty could be achieved in nine years.
Originally a vacuum lacking space-time dimensions, the universe "found itself in an excited vacuum state," a "ferment of quantum activity, teeming with virtual particles and full of complex interactions" (Davies 1984, 191 2), which, subject to a cosmic repulsive force, resulted in an immense increase in energy.
In the next decades, an immense increase in the prevalence of type 2 diabetes is expected to occur.
