And before you Western aid agencies, NGOs, etc. realize it China's investments have grown to very significant proportions practically overnight.

We chatted to the sommelier Daniel who told us had practically grown up in his father's restaurant, with his earliest memories from the age of 3 being the sight of potatoes baking in the oven.

She had been practically grown before she learned that not all white men loved their Indian children, not all white men respected their Indian wives.

There is practically zero sugarcane grown in the Amazon region.

He had practically grown up there, raised mostly by his grandparents, Doug and Jackie Golden, because his mother worked long hours at a local post office.

Sasshi's best friend and classmate, she is also 12-years-old, having practically grown up together with him in the Abenobashi Shopping Arcade.

After sifting through the applicants, the committee discovered that the best-qualified candidate was practically home grown.

Having practically grown up in the opera house, the Met's stagehands have considerable expertise in music and drama.

If you take a bunch of practically grown, red-blooded daughters to Africa, don't you think at least some of them are going to marry or what have you, and end up staying?

Now they were practically grown, and another man was raising them.