Sentence examples for it has ballooned from inspiring English sources

But it has become a subject of controversy recently even as it has ballooned in size.

But it has ballooned in ambition and nearly tripled in cost — to $48.8 million.

First published back in 2004, it has ballooned into a mini empire complete with email newsletters and daily meal plans.

Since 2000, it has ballooned from $900 billion to more than $45.5 trillion — roughly twice the size of the entire United States stock market.

Over the last quarter century it has ballooned into a much larger and much more influential organization than anyone might have imagined in 1977.

Over the decades it has ballooned into a city-wide event with over 300,000 attendees, mostly from the home-furnishing industries, but including representatives of disparate sectors such as luxury cars and electronics.

By December, it had ballooned to 10 pounds and was the size of his head.

In 2003 the agency's budget was 138m pesos; by 2014 it had ballooned to 800m.

The brand was stuck in a cautious posture after it had ballooned to 1,143 stores too quickly and had to file for bankruptcy in 1998.

The annual budget for the Mark Morris Dance Group, which was $18,000 when it began in 1980, had grown to $40,000 in 1986; by 2000 it had ballooned to $3.2 million.

The official price of a loaf of bread -about 25 kopecks, or 4 cents at the exchange rate used for tourists - has not changed in more than 30 years, while the subsidies the Government pays to produce it have ballooned.