Example sentences of "there [vb past] been a growing [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even before the outbreak of the Romanian revolution , there had been a growing scandal about Elena 's academic acceptability . |
| 2 | After 1956 — the year in which the government had tried and failed to cut off Arab support for the FLN in the ill-fated Anglo-French Suez expedition — there had been a growing perception , both in Paris and among the general public , that these dilemmas were not likely to be resolved by short-lived coalition governments of the kind that the Fourth Republic produced . |
| 3 | Throughout the nineteenth century in most industrialised nations there had been a growing need for governments to obtain reliable knowledge about the state of their societies . |
| 4 | What was more , there had been a growing number of mice in her house of late and she put it down to the age of the animal . |
| 5 | In the 1970s it was recognised that for decades there had been a growing imbalance between the consumer and the supplier or manufacturer . |