Example sentences of "has grown [prep] [art] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The initial whisker crystal or filament is often highly bent and the growth layers can be seen to exert a very strong straightening action on the bent filament , such that , by the time the sinuous initial thread has grown to a millimetre or so thick , it is in , variably straight . |
| 2 | Pollution in the Great Lakes has grown to the extent that it is a " a hazard to human health " , according to a report prepared by a joint US-Canadian team . |
| 3 | ‘ … but always there has been a hidden canker , which has grown with the years until it is stifling me . ’ |
| 4 | Inter-bank lending has grown over the years as money markets have become deregulated and as deposits are moved from one currency to another to take advantage of different rates of interest between different countries . |
| 5 | Its membership , appointed for renewable four-year terms , has grown over the years and has proved , as it was intended to be , a useful sounding board , especially as it quickly subdivided itself into specialist groups of experts on specific topics — in which , in fact , most of the work of the Committee was to be done . |