Example sentences of "[verb] risen [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In real terms , the funding for the Energy Efficiency Office has risen 10 times during the past 11 years . |
| 2 | There are two new names in the top 10 : Chris Oldfield has risen 10 places to seventh and Michael O'Driscoll moves from 14th to eighth . |
| 3 | In the past two and half years it has risen four times in real terms to pay for the publication of more and more glossy pamphlets such as the parents charter — party political propaganda produced at the taxpayers ' expense . |
| 4 | The number of cases of thyroid cancer among children in Belarus ( Belorussia ) has risen 100 times since the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 , with the highest levels in the areas where radioactive fallout was greatest . |
| 5 | The advantage of the temperature being so low — although it has risen several degrees with the cloud over — is that the snow is like dry flour and brushes off easily . |
| 6 | Despite this spending , and increased investment in funding development projects , the group 's cash pile has risen 20 p.c. in six months . |
| 7 | She had risen this morning with the intention of going into town and meandering among the shops , perhaps treating herself to a new bonnet , or buying Cissie those pretty boots she had so admired some days ago when the two of them had walked up and down Ainsworth Street , browsing in all the shop-windows ; afterwards , Beth might have called in to the delightful tea rooms at the comer of the boulevard . |