Example sentences of "have been growing [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A. The number of people in the larger cities has been growing rapidly during the last 50 years . |
| 2 | Literature about informal carers and the experience of caring has been growing ever since the pioneering work of Abrams ( e.g. 1980 ) . |
| 3 | They pointed out that , because of a simultaneous fall in the numbers of unemployed and of teenagers , expenditure per head on training had been growing rapidly since the mid-1980s . |
| 4 | Whilst there may well be every justification for such developments , which have been growing steadily since the 1950s but with increasing rapidity over the last decade , these emphases do undermine the notion of RBs as being wholly concerned with liberal adult education . |
| 5 | Divorce figures have been growing steadily in the UK since 1971 when the Divorce Reform Act 1969 came into force . |