Sentence examples similar to units ballooned from inspiring English sources
While the investment banking unit pulled in fees of $1.1 billion, its best quarter since 2000, expenses in the unit ballooned 33percentto to $2.4 billion, largely because of higher compensation and merger costs.
The unit's losses ballooned after the end of the first quarter.
For example, the Canadian surplus of cheap hydroelectric power and New England's 30% electricity surplus threaten the once sound economics of New Hampshire's Seabrook nuclear project (whose original estimated price tag of $1 billion for units 1 and 2 has ballooned to $5.2 billion).
EDS ballooned up to 50 business units, but coherence and growth faltered.
Inventories and receivables ballooned.
In addition, Yawata and northern Kyūshū were defended by anti-aircraft artillery units and barrage balloons.
More than 1,000 Israeli police were deployed around the Old City's cobbled streets and the ancient gates that lead to al Aqsa, a spokeswoman said, in addition to undercover anti-riot units and observation balloons floating in the sky.
IMS Research predicts that shipments of lighting with embedded radio frequency technology will balloon in the years ahead, from 600,000 units next year to 1.7 million in 2017.
His parents came from the Scottish borders and his father, Robert, had served in the first world war as an infantryman and as a Royal Flying Corps (RFC) balloon unit battlefront observer and pilot.
