0 used to describe activities, organizations, etc. that are getting bigger very quickly:
Economists love to make predictions about the fast-growing economies in East Asia.
For fast-growing developing economies, greater outward-orientation holds promise in terms of growth and efficiency.
These were alternated with fast-growing limes to provide protection for the young trees, shade and ornament until the slower growing specimens attained maturity.
Managed fallows involve the deliberate planting of fast-growing, nitrogen-fixing leguminous shrub and tree species for improving soil fertility and nutrient conservation.
All these characteristics of gaps are likely to favour the establishment of fast-growing alien plants requiring high levels of resources.
The fast-growing industry was not one of large factories but rather of small semispecialized machine shops, all of which were called "blacksmiths" in the census.
The radical reform of 1973, compounded by these factors, created a fast-growing vested interest in the welfare sector.
This is particularly so in regions with dense and fast-growing human populations, where expanding settlements, crops and livestock are displacing wildlife at an ever-increasing rate.
The most demanding challenge will probably be to live in a world with a fast-growing population.
