Example sentences of "grow [adv] in the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swindon has grown economically in the last 15 years and the unemployment level was down to a record low 2 to 3 years ago . |
| 2 | The design and build group , established in 1988 , specialises in healthcare developments and has grown quickly in the past four years . |
| 3 | The makers of mains signalling equipment hope that business will grow rapidly in the next few years . |
| 4 | He had grown up in the splendid sixties , had been born with a silver spoon in his mouth , enjoyed whatever he did to the hilt and was enough of a gentleman never to look back . |
| 5 | Such a proposal is now of another era , however , and I was present when an ex-Dean of Academic Studies at the college presented a paper ( Stead 1980 ) attacking the trend to expensive , amalgamated police units which had grown up in the previous two decades . |
| 6 | Australia 's Great Barrier Reef ( below left ) consists of thousands of coral islands , stretched along the entire coast of Queensland ; yet it has all grown up in the past 9000 years . |
| 7 | The diversity of the International region , which sells 75 brands in 108 markets , is well illustrated by its performance in smaller markets such as Turkey , where the market for Scotch whisky has grown three-fold in the last ten years.Johnnie Walker Red Label has maintained its major market share and is well placed to capitalise on the growth of one of the fastest developing economies in the region . |
| 8 | As we have seen , the number of full-time teachers engaged in further education has grown enormously in the last thirty years , from just over 4,500 in 1946–7 to about 80,000 in 1980 . |
| 9 | The company 's poor performance has been brought about by adverse factors that have dogged Lowndes since it bought out Harris Queensway , which had grown fast in the early 1980s only to fall on more difficult times . |
| 10 | The numbers of students at the colleges of education grew rapidly in the late 1960s , reaching a total of 114,000 by 1972 . |
| 11 | The business grew rapidly in the early 90s , ’ said Rob . |
| 12 | ‘ Hostility to the Forest system grew rapidly in the next twenty years . ’ |
| 13 | Trade union membership grew rapidly in the expanding public sector , especially among women . |
| 14 | In Liverpool , where I grew up in the early 1960s , one could no more not have an interest in football than fly to the moon . |
| 15 | Mr Mukhametshin , a 39-year-old Tatar who grew up in the Central Asian republic of Uzbekistan , began in business at 13 when he apprenticed himself to a family of travelling ice-cream makers . |
| 16 | Both grew up in the lonely forties , and both were nonconformists . |
| 17 | ‘ I grew up in the Swinging Sixties , ’ she broke in : ‘ Beatlemania , flower children , magic mushrooms . |
| 18 | Ashe , now 49 , grew up in the segregated American South of the 1950's , making it wholly appropriate that he should have become such a dedicated campaigner for equal rights all round the world . |