11.   A couple of recent developments could make that growth spurt look almost puny.

12.   A Noise Within has hit a growth spurt as it approaches its third birthday.

13.   A surplus of inventory will delay a growth spurt from the new rounding of lending, Chen said.

14.   Abnormally early puberty can affect later height by cutting short the normal growth spurt that begins at about the time breasts develop.

15.   All makers of turbines had growth spurts as utilities continued their buying spree, but analysts say that GE grabbed share away from competitors like ABB and Siemens.

16.   Businesses cannot keep adding to their inventories, depriving the growth spurt of one its main causes, they said.

17.   By any measure, the Atlantic has experienced a growth spurt in the last five years.

18.   By then, central bankers will have a better idea of whether a growth spurt in the first half of the year is fizzling, investors say.

19.   Cali last summer became a real estate investment trust, enabling it to raise money through stock offerings, and is now in a growth spurt.

20.   Chan said the overall decline would have been much larger had it not been for an unsustainable growth spurt in mining output.