According to official figures, Armenia ’ s economy grew by 13. 8 percent in 2007.

According to the traditional accounts, Gautama, the future Buddha, was a prince who grew up in an environment of luxury and opulence.

According to biographer Carol Easton, Beatrice grew up in a middle-class English household.

According to a group of astronomers at the University of Toronto and elsewhere, the observations of this supernova are best explained by assuming that it arose from a white dwarf which grew to twice the mass of the Sun before exploding.

According to his memoir, the combined pressures of managing the production company as well as supervising its day-to-day operations had greatly worsened as it grew much larger, and he felt compelled to seek outlets to alleviate the stress.

According to the International Monetary Fund, the Afghan economy grew 20 % in the fiscal year ending in March 2004, after expanding 30 % in the previous 12 months.

According to the Bible, Nazareth was also where Jesus grew up from some point in his childhood.

According to Pliny the Elder a vine, a fig and an olive tree grew in the middle of the Roman Forum, the latter was planted to provide shade ( the garden plot was recreated in the 20th century ).

According to the fourth, everyone grew weary of the meaningless affair.

According to a 2007 British Chambers of Commerce report, the private sector also grew, particularly in the service sector.

According to Rosa's sketches and timelines, Jake was born in 1832 to coal miners Dingus McDuck and Molly Mallard, and grew up to become a stockyard hand in Glasgow.

According to the Institute of Medicine, between 1993 and 2003, emergency room visits in the U. S. grew by 26 percent, while in the same period, the number of emergency departments declined by 425.

According to Hall, after his father was banned from working in the mines for joining an IWW strike, the family grew up in near starvation in a log cabin built by Halberg.

According to Moore, the concept behind the series was initially a " Justice League of Victorian England " but quickly grew into an opportunity to merge several works of fiction into one world.

According to the text: the empress Justina " became known to Marina Severa, wife of the emperor Valentinian, and had frequent intercourse with the empress, until their intimacy at length grew to such an extent that they were accustomed to bathe together.

" According to the biographer Richard Beeman, the legend of this speech grew more dramatic over the years.

According to Adams ' account in The Salmon of Doubt, the idea behind The Meaning of Liff grew out of an old school game, and started when he and Lloyd were on holiday together.

According to legend, the Nymphs planted elms on the tomb, in the Thracian Chersonese, of " great-hearted Protesilaus " (« μεγάθυμου Πρωτεσιλάου »), elms that grew to be the tallest in the known world ; but when their topmost branches saw far off the ruins of Troy, they immediately withered, so great still was the bitterness of the hero buried below.

According to Virgil, Cycnus lamented Phaethon's death till he grew old, so his gray hair became gray feathers upon his transformation.

According to Pausanias, Penthilus grew up and founded a city either on Lesbos or in Thrace.

According to the local legend, a postmaster around 1960 grew tired of writing Smiths Station, so he took it upon himself to drop " Station " from the name of the community.

According to the U. S Census estimates of 2005, the city grew to 7, 151.

According to the 2005 U. S. Census Bureau's estimates, the city grew slightly to 1, 867.

According to the 2010 census, 33, 039 people live in Newnan, the county seat of Coweta County, and it grew 103. 4 % since 2000.

According to the 2010 Census, Youngsville grew at a rate of 103 % between year 2000 and 2010.

According to Alexander teachers, " end-gaining " increases the likelihood of selecting older or multiple conflicting coping strategies.

According to the IBGE, 160, 000 people live in Copacabana and 44, 000 or 27. 5 % of them are 60 years old or older.

According to Every, one example may be " the myth of St. George " and other stories about saints battling dragons, which were " modelled no doubt in many cases on older representations of the creator and preserver of the world in combat with chaos ".

According to Western scholars the older sections of the Book of Enoch ( mainly in the Book of the Watchers ) date from about 300 BC and the latest part ( Book of Parables ) probably was composed at the end of 1st century BC.

According to Martin Noth, a scholar of the Hebrew Bible, the narratives of Isaac date back to an older cultural stage than that of the West-Jordanian Jacob.

According to an older John Boy, the strange events " never happened again ", and Elizabeth had a normal birthday.

According to an older tradition, he was killed by the Trojans who, seeing he was invulnerable, attacked him with clay until he was covered by it and could no longer move, thus dying of starvation.

According to the University, the Latin motto Sidere mens eadem mutato can be translated as " Though the constellations change, the mind is universal ", therefore, conveying the aspiration that " the traditions of the older universities of the Northern Hemisphere are continued here in the Southern.

According to U. S. government and United Nations estimates, in 2007 about 46 percent of the population was under age 15 ; slightly more than half the population, 15 – 64 ; and less than 3 percent, 65 and older.

According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, " This and other similar doctrines found in the Zohar are now known to be much older than Christianity, but the Christian scholars who were led by the similarity of these teachings to certain Christian dogmas deemed it their duty to propagate the Zohar.

According to some sources, the older man was expected to function as a kind of substitute father and role model to his junior partner ; however, others believe it was reasonably certain that they had sexual relations ( the exact nature of Spartan pederasty is not entirely clear ).

According to these sources, the Spartans believed that the love of an older, accomplished aristocrat for an adolescent was essential to his formation as a free citizen.

According to Gregory the Great's biography of Benedict, Life of Saint Benedict of Nursia, the monastery was constructed on an older pagan site, a temple of Apollo that crowned the hill.

According to research studies explained by The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, in 2003-2004, Americans two years of age and older consumed 585g per day of beverages and 375g per day of foods with caloric sweeteners.

According to some older sources he initially wanted to have a career in the Church ( it is probable that he held the post of Oblate ) and even asked for a dispensation to became a monk.

According to the sequel, she is seven and a half years old, but seems to conduct herself like a somewhat older child.

According to the organisers of a recent Hrabal exhibition in Brno, his biological father was “ probably ” Bohumil Blecha ( b. 1893-d, 1970 ), who was a year older than Marie, a friend from the neighbourhood and the son of a teacher.

* According to Solinus ( 9. 10 ), Pierus was unrelated and older than Makednos.

According to Jerome and all the older Christian interpreters, the mourning is for something that occurred at a place called Hadad-rimmon ( Maximianopolis ) in the valley of Megiddo.

According to the Census Bureau, Maumelle is the best educated city in Arkansas, proportionately, with 51. 7 % of adult residents ( 25 and older ) holding an associate degree or higher, and 45. 7 % of adults possessing a baccalaureate degree or higher.

According to testimony given in the criminal case, Utah v. Warren Jeffs, the Hot Springs Motel located in Caliente is the site of several forced marriages between under-aged girls and older men.

According to the 1999 census, 25. 0 % of the population is under the age of 18, 10. 6 % is 18 to 24, 26. 3 % is 25 to 44, 21. 8 % is 45 to 64, and 16. 4 % is 65 years of age or older.

According to data gathered by the U. S. Census in 2000, a high school diploma was the highest level of educational attainment for 23. 7 percent of the population aged 25 or older ; the national average was 28. 6 percent for this category.

According to the U. S. Census Bureau, 12. 3 % of adults 25 years and older have graduate or professional degrees, 22. 2 % have bachelor's degrees, 8. 4 % have associate's degrees, and 27. 7 % have some college but no degree.

According to the Grail cycle, it was Uther's older brother ( elsewhere called Ambrosius Aurelianus ) who saw the comet and received the name " Pendragon ", Uther taking his epithet after his death.