Example sentences of "have been growing [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Yet Jennifer in recent months has been growing through a difficult spell in the growing up process , particularly mentally .
2 Over the past fifteen years concern has been growing over the environmental effects and social costs of ‘ acid rain' .
3 The buzzard population in the province has been growing over the last few years and is believed to currently stand at 650 .
4 Disillusionment with the ‘ big ’ government philosophy of the New Deal and the Great Society had been growing during the 1970s — even Carter had been fairly conservative in domestic policy .
5 Trade unions had been growing throughout the nineteenth century but they were still without those distinctive legal privileges which they acquired in 1906 .
6 Unrest had been growing in the Transylvanian region ever since December 1989 when the new National Salvation Front ( NSF ) government had reached an agreement with the Hungarian government to restore ethnic and cultural rights denied to the Hungarian community of 2,000,000 people by the former regime of Nicolae Ceausescu .
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