21.   As you may know, plumeria must reach maturity and develop a blooming hormone in their tips before flowering.

22.   Because of rain-delayed planting, some soybean fields have yet to reach maturity.

23.   Biologists have determined that the fish reaches maturity at that length, so anything shorter must be released.

24.   A normal or long growing season would allow corn and soybean plants to reach full maturity before cold weather comes.

25.   But once the spiders reach sexual maturity at between three and six months, their death rates diverge markedly.

26.   But the teen-age population now is on the rise as the children of baby boomers reach maturity.

27.   But their larger purpose was to demonstrate that modern dance had reached artistic maturity.

28.   Cheetah cubs in zoos and wildlife parks often die before reaching maturity and they are vulnerable to disease.

29.   Chickens reach sexual maturity in just six months.

30.   Cargill Inc. aired radio advertisements asking farmers to harvest corn before reaching maturity just to keep a corn syrup plant open.