Though his songbook continued to increase in size and complexity, and his circle of collaborators included many of New York's most talented young jazz musicians, he enjoyed little commercial success.
Five years from now, assuming both of those larger players have doubled in size (which I think is very conservative), Sina would have to increase 10x in size to be of equal valuation to them.
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Also, after hardly budging in the first half of the 20th century, the English vocabulary expanded at a rate of 8, 500 words a year in the second half, leading to a 70% increase in its size since 1950 (see chart).
President GEORGE W. BUSH: I'm inclined to believe that we need to increase, in the permanent size, of both the United States Army and the United States Marines.
It also said the fall in average household size was due to an increase in the proportion of one-person households, which almost doubled between 1971 and 1998 (rising from 17% of households in 1971 to 29% in 1998) and has remained similar since.
Yesterday the Financial Times reported that Europe was in discussions to increase the size of the EFSF bailout fund.
Phone cameras with up to five megapixels are becoming available, but InVisage, a small firm based in Menlo Park, California, hopes to leap from that to a photographically respectable 12 megapixels, without an increase in size or cost, by adding tiny crystals called quantum dots to the process.
Just recently, a new production run of the iPad 2 (identified as the "iPad2, 4") has actually served to increase people's interest in transistor size.
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Twenty-five percent of employers plan to increase the size of their bonuses in 2012, compared to less than 17% who boosted bonuses a year ago.
Available in 51-, 59- and 64-inch screen sizes, these 1080p 3D sets were designed with a slimmer bezel that offers up to a full inch increase in viewing screen size over last year's models, and each one measures just 1.5-inch thick.
It appears fair to say that an increase in total government size of ten percentage points in tax revenue or expenditure as a share of GDP is on average associated with an annual lower growth rate of between one-half and one percentage point.
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Part of the confusion about sangomas and inyanga stems from the many quack healers operating throughout the country, who advertise cures for all manner of diseases, potions to increase penis size, ensure success in love or business or sometimes to ensure your enemy's downfall.
What makes this different is that this is going to be a long-term increase in the size of ground forces in Iraq.
The increase in brain size seems to have coincided with a modern physique characterised by a linear shape, long legs and relatively narrow hips.
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That, of course, also comes with an increase in screen size (to 3-inches), and a new interface that seems to include a few elements from that patent filing we saw a while back.
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The big countries were determined to counter the watering down of their voting power by the steady increase in the size of the EU. With many more small countries among the applicants expected to join over the next decade they were determined not to be swamped.
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They are asked whether they intend to increase or reduce the size of their workforce in the next economic quarter.
Repeat and increase in size as desired and required to support the business.
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Specifically, between 1966 and 2007, the entire increase in the size of government relative to the economy can be attributed to growth in tax-financed health spending (predominantly Medicare and Medicaid).
The limitations of the Kindle, in my view, are the limited selection of less-mainstream books, lack of backlight, expensive newspaper or magazine subscriptions and the inability to increase the size of graphs and other things embedded in texts.
It is not something that fits with the giant corporate mentality that tends to grow more and more restrictive and ossified as companies increase in size.
Other factors contributing to the high increase in the number of Caesarean births included the size of the hospital, the availability of a neo-natal intensive care unit and the number of midwives on duty.
If anything, as companies increase in size and complexity, it becomes tougher to expand at a rapid pace.
That evening, Mr. Ebersman, in consultation with Mr. Grimes, decided to increase the size of the offering after Mr. Grimes told him the order book was "dramatically oversubscribed, " says a banker involved in the process.
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Simultaneously calling for an increase in school time is tantamount to choosing this policy over class size reductions and early childhood intervention (and several others, including, perhaps, teacher-related policies) alternatives with a stronger track record of effectiveness.
In order to help the seabirds fledge their young and increase the size of the colony, Denbighshire Council erected the protective fence with the help of volunteers.
The 41.5 percent increase in the size of the federal government is relative to 2011, which itself is a very inflated baseline compared to historical levels of federal spending.
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Any further increase in size could fundamentally undermine the chamber's ability to do its job.
Republican leaders have sought to reduce the size of government and, therefore, generally oppose any increase in tax revenue.
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