In their wake, service firms have multiplied, property prices have burgeoned and investment is up.

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By the time the Oxford English Dictionary was completed, in 1928, the number had burgeoned to 414, 825.

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RSLs have burgeoned because they, unlike the local authorities, can raise private capital to build and repair property.

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This market has burgeoned as increasingly debt-laden companies sell paper at a 13-14% discount to face value in an effort to stay afloat.

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In fact, since the Bush tax cuts of 2003, state and local takings have burgeoned, just as they have on the federal level.

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At that time, superyachts were a rarity, but over the last two decades the numbers and the sizes of those yachts have burgeoned.

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Focus sales rose by 91 percent year over year in September and have burgeoned by 36 percent, to nearly 187, 000 units, for the year to date.

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Between 1970 and 1990 the number of people employed in tech in the Valley more than doubled to 268, 000, and then burgeoned to over 540, 000 in the 1990s.

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The number of people working for the government has burgeoned from 16, 000 to 90, 000 during Correa's current term, Ecuador's nongovernmental Observatory of Fiscal Policy said in a December report.

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Protest movements, often involving youth, have burgeoned in the past few years in India amid growing frustration about corruption and poor governance, but they have yet to score a concrete policy victory.

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