This comment was regularly aired in banking purlieus around the world, along with surprise at the bank's meteoric growth.
The statistics for on-line retail sales, and projections of future revenue, show meteoric growth.
This "meteoric growth," the British magazine Opera Now said last year, is "creating noises everywhere."
Twitter's openness has been praised as one of the key reasons behind its meteoric growth.
The meteoric growth of the new rich is hard to ignore.
The league's spectacular performance after only six years of operation highlighted a period of meteoric growth.
But it is true that we've had meteoric growth, so we're comparing ourselves now to some fantastic years.
Meanwhile, meteoric growth in the West is increasing pressure to complete land exchanges.
The most successful new industry was sugar, which had meteoric growth in the 1930s.
He already had a record for fostering meteoric growth.