Example sentences of "have grown [prep] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a church has grown to a membership of 300 and wishes to send one of its leaders and several of its members to start a new and similar flourishing work in a neighbouring area it may meet with problems . |
| 2 | By 1989 the church was meeting in fortnightly celebrations in Raynes Park High School and at the time of writing the church has grown to a membership of 300 . |
| 3 | It was founded five years ago as a small voluntary organisation and now has grown to a membership of 275 and a permanent secretariat with full time staff . |
| 4 | Ichthus has grown through a combination of traditional evangelistic methods and of rediscovery of powerful ministry in the Holy Spirit . |
| 5 | But over the last twelve months the trickle of disclosures , has grown into a river of revelations . |
| 6 | As Sheffield has grown into a city of about 500 000 people– many jobs have been created to provide services , especially shops and transport , and to make processed foods , beer , sweets , clothing , furniture and printing . |
| 7 | A tribe is a family which has grown as a result of births . |
| 8 | Today , the result of our labours was several long rows of planted saplings which , in ten years ' time , will have grown into a grove of pussy willows doing useful service as a screen for walkers . |
| 9 | The losses of the state sector had grown as a result of the explosion of labour costs with the return to democracy , and because the state holding company INI ( Instituto Nacional de Industrias ) became a ‘ hospital ’ for near-bankrupt private companies ; these accounted for more than 40 per cent of its losses in 1983 . |
| 10 | In origin these were scraps of waste wood for fuel , and by the mid seventeenth century they had grown into a form of wage supplementation . |
| 11 | His memory had grown into a series of fading snapshots . |
| 12 | Virgin had grown through a series of developments that business schools call ‘ vertical integration ’ , but which Branson saw as just common sense . |
| 13 | The movement had grown in a climate of free enterprise , and while it remained relatively small it did not appear to threaten the capitalist market or private business . |
| 14 | Since the balance of payments has become a structural problem because of the prolonged period of under-investment , imports have grown as a share of UK domestic spending , making the growth of inflation resulting from devaluation more rapid . |
| 15 | Some of these appear to have been applied as important criteria from the beginning , while others have grown into a body of case law " . |
| 16 | Rumblings that the election might be postponed once again have grown after a series of ominous events in recent weeks . |