Which preposition to use with growth

of Occurrences 2368%

We have witnessed an extraordinary growth of universities, libraries, and higher schools,the widespread increase of commerce, the prosperity of business, the rise in the price of food, and the great coal-strike of 1902.

in Occurrences 296%

Coincident with these must be a growth in depth and dignity of life.

from Occurrences 23%

Thus fire, the great destroyer of Sequoia, also furnishes bare virgin ground, one of the conditions essential for its growth from the seed.

than Occurrences 23%

It is a trailing evergreen, is of smaller growth than the common kind (see No. 166), and is remarkable for its smell, which closely resembles that of the rind of a lemon.

on Occurrences 21%

For these and other reasons, some of which are more fully stated in the papers already referred to, while I admit that the areas of coal accumulation were frequently submerged, I must maintain that the true coal is a subaërial accumulation by vegetable growth on soils, wet and swampy it is true, but not submerged.

as Occurrences 20%

But do not the secular look upon growth as a sort of chasea chase for more learning, more money, a bigger business, a higher degree, a better position, a brilliant marriage,a struggle for wealth, renown, acclaim?

to Occurrences 17%

If the decay of the soft parts of the sea-urchin; the attachment, growth to maturity, and decay of the Crania; and the subsequent attachment and growth of the coralline, took a year (which is a low estimate enough), the accumulation of the inch of chalk must have taken more than a year: and the deposit of a thousand feet of chalk must, consequently, have taken more than twelve thousand years.

by Occurrences 16%

It is quite unnecessary to recount all the gradations of growth by which room after room arose from the ruins of the Priory.

for Occurrences 14%

And even if I were right and you wrong, the only chance of growth for you was to exploit the matter and find it out for yourself.

at Occurrences 14%

Small and undeveloped during childhood, its growth at puberty parallels that of the other reproductive organs.

with Occurrences 11%

Moreover, the gland is influenced by and influences the factors of body weight and growth with an extreme readiness and lability.

through Occurrences 11%

The governmental institutions of Great Britain have been established by the growth through many centuries of a great body of accepted rules and customs which, taken together, are called the British Constitution.

under Occurrences 8%

These are the essential features of the social system which, from its early growth under the later Carlovingians in the ninth century, spread over Europe and reached its highest development in the twelfth century.

during Occurrences 7%

But nothing has been more significant in its growth during the war than the small enterprises in which the husband and wife in the domestic munition shop, laboring side by side with a little group of assistants, have been turning out marvels of skill.

within Occurrences 6%

That, I answer, in its modes of thought, its manners and habits, which favours the growth within the individual of that kingdom of heaven for the sake only of which the kingdoms of earth exist.

into Occurrences 5%

" Now, to God the Father, who, out of His boundless love, ordains the making of all things; and to God the Son, who, out of His boundless love, performs the making of all things; and to God the Holy Spirit, who, out of His boundless love, breathes law and kind, life and growth into all things, three Persons in one, ever-blessed Trinity, be all glory, and honour, and praise, for ever and ever.

among Occurrences 5%

Wherever they originated, their practical enforcement has been a slow and unequal growth among various peoples, and it is always the evident result of an evolution, or development of civilization.

towards Occurrences 5%

Even where we have no proof of repentance, we may see plentiful signs of a growth towards it.

near Occurrences 3%

The next day the savages and our carriers continued to clear away as much as possible of the tangled growth near the best ruins.

like Occurrences 3%

Then there are smaller growths like low plants, and curiously colored, some pink, some red, others a yellowish white.

up Occurrences 2%

Wherever the ancient glaciers have spread forest soil there you find our wee hero, most abundant where depth of soil and genial climate have given rise to a corresponding luxuriance in the trees, but following every kind of growth up the curving moraines to the highest glacial fountains.

between Occurrences 2%

One question brought up by these measurements is whether there is any correspondence in growth between the main axis and its branches.

about Occurrences 2%

This, however, is not always the case, for sometimes a thin discharge will take place, which, if the part be examined, will be found to proceed from a small growth about the size, perhaps, of a pea, or even less.

over Occurrences 1%

Subsequent growth over the damaged portion does not cohere with the wood previously formed by the old cambium.

around Occurrences 1%

Growth around the chest is flattering even to the humblest of us.

Which preposition to use with  growth