I, at my beginning, grew with vertiginous speed; Aadam, wrestling with the serpents of disease, scarcely grew at all.

Final sales -total national output minus the increase of inventories - scarcely grew in the first half of 1987.

Cleon could scarcely grow any angrier over that.

Even though retail sales climbed five-tenths of 1 percent in July, and consumer inflation scarcely grew, workers' buying power fell.

Often, newly planted trees will scarcely grow at all for the first two or three years.

His face could scarcely grow redder, but the back of his neck flamed crimson, as the sound of feminine giggles followed us up the stairs.

He continued to inch higher, but the Cloudmaster scarcely grew closer the longer he climbed.

You shouldn't let it go for the winter, though, unless it grows scarcely at all.

The economy will have to run much faster than it has in the now-ending first quarter, when it scarcely grew at all, to reduce unemployment before November.

Without state intervention, markets can scarcely grow beyond primitive face-to-face transactions.