1.   As traffic grew, the conventional wisdom was to widen the roads.

2.   Another variable will be how much freight traffic grows this year.

3.   As a result, traffic grew four times as fast as the population.

4.   As debit purchases grow in number, network traffic will also grow.

5.   As Internet traffic grows, computer servers become an important growth area where Microsoft is a leader but only in a tight and crowded race.

6.   As the years passed, the traffic grew thinner as the company laid off workers and eventually shuttered its building.

7.   Airline traffic has grown so much in the last decade that any stop in service would have a major effect on the economy, analysts said.

8.   Airline traffic has grown so much in the last decade, however, any stop in service would have a major effect on the economy, analysts said.

9.   In addition, because of deregulation of the airlines and a healthy economy, air traffic was growing so fast that it was threatening to overwhelm the present system.

10.   Part of the problem, the organization said, is that traffic has grown sharply in that region.