Because the trees initially grow slowly, there is little competition between them and the crops.
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While other yellowish arborvitae are on the market, this one promises to grow slowly and no higher than eight feet.
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Testing for prostate cancer is traditionally difficult as it is very common, but can grow slowly and without any symptoms.
U.S. medical schools graduate about 20, 000 doctors every year, a number that can only grow slowly if standards count for anything.
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Coral-reef fish tend to grow slowly, take many years to reach reproductive age, and then spawn in only a few localised sites.
The economy was poised to grow slowly under either administration.
The 2006 report--which examined the previous year and beyond--said that real GDP "will grow slowly at a diminishing rate from 2005 through 2009, " decelerating from 3.5% in 2005 to 3.1% in 2009.
The OECD issued a report overnight that said the U.S., China and U.K economies will continue to grow slowly in 2013, but that economies in the European Union, Japan and Canada will contract.
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Spending would consequently grow more slowly than total state taxes, which also tend to grow at the rate of state economic growth.
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Ordinarily, when unemployment shoots up wages do not tend to fall: they simply grow more slowly.
They will cut their dependence on wholesale funding, and grow more slowly as a result.
Studies show that state companies use capital less efficiently than private ones, and grow more slowly.
If the central banks are right, then rents will surely grow more slowly in future.
As these one-off boosts tail away, banks' earnings per share will grow more slowly.
The world's energy needs might grow more slowly than forecast, reducing the need for nuclear power.
Emerging markets that need to wean themselves off cross-border capital will grow more slowly than their potential.
At the same time, most analysts expect local-call revenues to grow only slowly during the next few years.
That's because prostate tumors tend to grow so slowly that other health problems often kill a patient first.
In the long term, it might be that developed economies are going to grow more slowly as a result of the crisis.
On the other hand, trees grow very slowly in the Icelandic climate.
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When it first surfaces, you can do nothing, betting that the disease will grow so slowly that something else will kill you first.
Second, prostate cancer tends to grow very slowly, which means it might not kill you--or if it does, it will happen much later in life.
By assuring markets that Medicare costs will grow more slowly after 2023, a Medicare fix -- it's argued -- will ignite job creation in 2013.
You would expect countries battered down by such calamities to grow more slowly than the average, so the correlation between aid and slow growth is false.
The number of cars in the rich world will grow only slowly in the years ahead, but car ownership elsewhere is about to go into overdrive.
"We knew this would cause our site to grow more slowly, but we think the world is moving in our direction, " says Facebook privacy chief Christopher Kelly.
It also tends to obscure the fact that as government spending grows relative to the size of the economy, eventually the economy tends to grow more slowly.
The strongest growth last year came in automobiles and parts, but look for that sector to grow more slowly in 2013 as we near normal levels of car sales.
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China's exports are likely to grow more slowly over the next decade, as demand in rich economies remains subdued, but its market share will probably continue to creep up.
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