He also suggested that the present population had outgrown the food supply.

Talk to someone about how an expanding population will someday outgrow the food supply, and the response is likely to be that such a problem will not occur for 500 years!

From the high ground to the north I looked back upon the sleeping town, with the broad edging of tents and waggons, which showed how suddenly its population had outgrown it.

When their population outgrows the resources of their habitat, lemmings migrate, although contrary to popular myth, they do not jump into the sea.

He was afraid that the population would outgrow the food supply, and ordered many woman to be sterilized.

By 1075, the population of K2 had outgrown the area and relocated to Mapungubwe Hill.

By the early Fifties, the population was outgrowing this building as well, and another location was sought.

"It wouldn't be good to let our population outgrow the blood source."

Less than twenty years after its founding, the school's population had outgrown the building.

However, by the late 19th century, the population was outgrowing the chapel, and in 1892 planning began for a church.