Example sentences of "have been growing [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet Jennifer in recent months has been growing through a difficult spell in the growing up process , particularly mentally . |
| 2 | Concern has been growing for some time now , voiced not only by the media but also by some high-powered academics , ex-civil servants and former senior government statisticians , that official information which should be wholly objective is being distorted , suppressed or otherwise interfered with to serve the political ends of the government . |
| 3 | Political pressure has been growing for the Queen to pay . |
| 4 | Her salary has been growing to the point where she feels she can afford to buy a home and it promises to climb much further over the next few years . |
| 5 | However , during the same period the Japanese economy has been growing at about 3% per year . |
| 6 | Fortunately , technical developments have ensured that the increase in computing power per unit cost has been growing at about an order of magnitude every 6 years over the last three decades . |
| 7 | iXOS , founded in 1988 by Hans Strach Zimmerman , formerly with Siemens AG , and Eberhard Faerber , founder of Peripherie Computer Systeme GmbH , is a privately-held company that has been growing at a rate of 50% per year , and employs 110 staff . |
| 8 | iXOS , founded in 1988 by Hans Strach Zimmerman ( ex Siemens ) and Eberhard Faerber ( founder of PCS Computer Systems ) , is a privately-owned company that has been growing at a rate of 50% per year , employs 110 staff . |
| 9 | Over the past fifteen years concern has been growing over the environmental effects and social costs of ‘ acid rain' . |
| 10 | The buzzard population in the province has been growing over the last few years and is believed to currently stand at 650 . |
| 11 | For who within the service is seeking or is willing to dismantle these units whose power and autonomy has been growing in strides since the Royal Commission of 1960 and the subsequent Police Act of 1964 first created the amalgamated giants ? |
| 12 | There can be no doubt that the momentum in favour of German unity , as one state or a confederation , has been growing in East Germany . |
| 13 | C. As a port , Bristol has been growing in size and trade . |
| 14 | Although doubts may have been growing about the Woodvilles ' ultimate intentions , there are no signs that anyone else was contemplating direct action against them — or that the family had yet done anything to warrant it . |
| 15 | Although doubts may have been growing about the Woodvilles ' ultimate intentions , there are no signs that anyone else was contemplating direct action against them — or that the family had yet done anything to warrant it . |
| 16 | So why the population should have been growing on this scale I think is er a question that we ca n't answer very easily . |
| 17 | Tension would then have been growing by the hour , and it must have been hard indeed for the men to keep themselves from being overstressed by apprehension and excitement . |
| 18 | Since early April , tension had been growing between Tito and the Western Allies over Tito 's claim that the whole of the area of north-east Italy known as Venezia Giulia should become part of a " Greater Yugoslavia " . |
| 19 | ‘ Democracy Wall ’ soon became a popular venue for those with grievances and a focus for the dissent that had been growing under the surface for years . |
| 20 | Doubts had been growing over Merseyside 's ability to gain Objective One status and the estimated £1bn package of EC grants it could bring . |
| 21 | Disillusionment with the ‘ big ’ government philosophy of the New Deal and the Great Society had been growing during the 1970s — even Carter had been fairly conservative in domestic policy . |
| 22 | All these trees had been growing on peat do you see , and the peat was dry . |
| 23 | Not surprisingly the British economy had been growing at only about half the average annual rate of 5.4 per cent for the EEC countries since 1953 . |
| 24 | The power of Chaos had been growing for some years . |
| 25 | Pressure had been growing for a change of leadership since the failure of Peres to form a government in April [ see pp. 37391-2 ] . |
| 26 | European overlordship , however , was to prove incompatible with the notions of Arab nationalism that had been growing since the end of the nineteenth century ; and it was no surprise that this would become apparent first in the most advanced country in the region , Egypt . |
| 27 | The dawn ride alone with Jacques Devraux through the breathtaking natural beauty of the tropical forest had first heightened the pleasurable feeling of pent-up excitement that had been growing within her in recent days , then eventually left her feeling tense and on edge . |
| 28 | Trade unions had been growing throughout the nineteenth century but they were still without those distinctive legal privileges which they acquired in 1906 . |
| 29 | She was in high spirits ; the idea which had been growing in her with increasing , undeniable force was now going to become a reality . |
| 30 | ‘ What she did n't say and was too embarrassed to talk about was an uncanny feeling that she had only recently become aware of , but now realised had been growing in her ever since she had set foot on Titron . |