Sentence examples for spate of development from inspiring English sources

The house had once stood alone, surrounded by open country, but after a spate of development in the area, it was now flanked by other houses.

A spate of development over the past decade or so has rendered that description pretty much redundant, but Banana Bay is very much St Kitts the way it used to be.

Below us, we could appreciate how little of this peaceful hamlet was actually inhabited, despite a recent spate of development.

Those market drops followed a spate of developments signaling a slowing economy both in the United States and abroad.

Now that the conference has ended, there has been a spate of developments involving the accounts of major national marketers like J. C. Penney, H & R Block and Lucent Technologies.

There have always been viable businesses in the area -- Santa Barbara Winery has aged its vintages here for decades -- but a spate of new development is transforming the district from grungy to trendy.

But in the past few years, two neighbourhoods to the north and south of Old Jerusalem have undergone a spate of new development to keep up with tourist demand, revealing pockets of a modernised city amid otherwise historical sites.

This imaginative city park, following the route of an elevated freight railroad abandoned in 1980, has given a great deal of relaxed pleasure to millions of New Yorkers and visitors to Manhattan since the first section opened five years ago, while prompting a spate of property development revitalising a one-and-a-half mile corridor of Manhattan's West side.

And a spate of condominium developments is aimed at the growing number of working single salarywomen.

With the spate of new developments under way, the parts of Talladega and St. Clair Counties that straddle the 17,000-acre lake are anticipating more second- and full-time homeowners.

Balian has long been a favourite bolthole for expats and board riders looking to escape the crowded south of the island and it's still satisfyingly somnolent despite a spate of new developments.