Example sentences of "has increase [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " The level of abstraction and consumption has increased over the last century by hundreds of times , and perhaps in some cases by thousands . |
| 2 | The optimistic reading is that we have been successful , in that the number of men convicted of rape has increased over the last decade by 39 per cent in the case of rape , 2 per cent in the case of sexual assault , and 55 per cent in the case of incest . |
| 3 | The percentage of young people staying on in full-time education after the legal minimum leaving age has increased during the last decade , as Figure 12.1 shows . |
| 4 | Among the children of a Woolwich school evacuated to somewhere in Kent the average weight of the boys has increased during the last month by 2½ lb. and of girls by 3½ lb . |
| 5 | This latter has increased throughout the twentieth century ; it is not an end-of-century phenomenon . |