Example sentences of "enormous growth " in BNC.

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1 Nevertheless , civil aviation was correctly perceived by the British and Americans alike as an area of enormous growth after 1945 .
2 The source of nitrate pollution is now undisputed : changes in agricultural practices , including the ploughing up of permanent pasture but , most importantly , the enormous growth in the use of artificial fertilisers .
3 So nitrate from the enormous growth in artificial fertiliser applications is rapidly leached away .
4 Moreover , even today allowing for the enormous growth in monopoly , or oligopoly , in the advanced capitalist countries , the national economies have not yet reached that condition of ‘ rationality ’ or planning in production that Bukharin assumed had been already achieved .
5 The enormous growth and prosperity of both Bristol and Liverpool in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were almost wholly due to the slave trade .
6 Their abolition marked the beginnings of an enormous growth in the number of titles published as well as a reduction in cover prices : in 1855 , most of the metropolitan dailies were priced at 5d , by 1870 prices ranged from ½d to 3d , with one at 4d .
7 Enormous growth in this business occurred through the substitution phase and for a period of some years the business was extremely profitable .
8 This feature of the company together with the increasing substitution of the organization of economic activity within the company rather than through the markets suggested that there had been an enormous growth in the power of corporate management .
9 In financing the development at home and abroad of the railways , it made possible the enormous growth in the production first of iron , later of steel , which characterised the secondary stage of the Industrial Revolution and guaranteed it as an irreversible change .
10 In particular he referred to the enormous growth of the arms industry in America , which by 1960 directly employed 3.5 million people .
11 Table 3.3 shows the enormous growth in the ‘ domestic'-built environment in the twentieth century .
12 They reveal an enormous growth in this sector .
13 Social class inequalities , however , remain as strong as ever despite the enormous growth in education provision and expenditure .
14 Elderly people have not been singled out for special consideration either , but for quite a different reason : their needs are broadly the same as those of younger adults , and specialist mental health services for elderly people are now developing all over the country as a direct response to the enormous growth in the numbers of people with dementia .
15 This is reflected in the enormous growth of micro usage in these areas and especially in the field of robotics .
16 Japan has experienced enormous growth of its overseas lending activities since 1980 , when it only had about 5% of the world lending market .
17 To them it was essentially an effort , on the whole an unsuccessful one , to restrict and if possible reverse the enormous growth of Britain 's maritime strength and overseas possessions .
18 There is an enormous growth in opportunities to work for central or local government , a commercial or industrial organisation , the Magistrates ' Courts Service , and the Crown Prosecution Service .
19 There is general agreement that on all key measures there has been an enormous growth not only in the availability but also in the use of the mass media in the developed world over the last few decades .
20 This development parallels ( not accidentally ) the enormous growth of the TNCs themselves since the 1950s , both in scope and geographical spread .
21 The enormous growth of population in the rest of England began in the 1740s .
22 The old agrarian basis of the economy survived well into the Georgian era but the enormous growth of population made a new form of local society unavoidable and the Enclosure Award of 1766 put the final seal of approval on changes that had long been underway .
23 During our period we see the simultaneous and enormous growth of trade in agricultural produce , a remarkable extension of the area in agricultural use , and — at least in the countries directly affected by world capitalist development — a major ‘ flight from the land ’ .
24 Just as the organisational chart of Average Borough Town Hall shows a growing number of units and horizontal spidery lines , so too we have seen an enormous growth in the number of soft and hard systems that have found their way into the Town Hall , with or without consultation or approval from the local IT department .
25 Capital provision to support these two areas is scarce and the 1990s are going to test even the most supportive administrations to meet urgent demands for library extensions and preservation/substitution programmes , neither of which has been an established part of institutional budget planning , nor likely to receive much more than sympathy from the funding councils , except perhaps in cases where enormous growth in student numbers have caused such pressures on space .
26 By far the fastest growing part of that enormous growth was in the form of trade between the various advanced countries ( table 10.2 ) ; their exports to the underdeveloped countries and the Eastern bloc grew far more slowly .
27 By the mid-sixties the enormous growth of waged jobs had effectively created full employment .
28 I mean to give an earlier example , when at the beginning of this century , Mendel 's laws of genetics were rediscovered and an enormous growth of genetics took place and indeed is still taking place , initially Mendelism was seen by it 's practitioners and by biologists as a whole as a challenge to Darwinism , as an alternative to Darwin , and great fights took place for twenty years or so between the Darwinians and the Mendelians .
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