Example sentences of "have been growing [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Such conclusions had been growing in force in American higher education for many years , and especially since the investigation carried out by Harvie Branscomb , librarian of Duke University , in the later 19305 at the request of the Association of American Colleges . |
| 32 | As his sword went back for his final sweep the sullen glow that had been growing in the doorway of the Broken Drum flickered , dimmed , and erupted into a roaring fireball that sent the walls billowing outward and carried the roof a hundred feet into the air before bursting through it , in a gout of red-hot tiles . |
| 33 | Unrest had been growing in the Transylvanian region ever since December 1989 when the new National Salvation Front ( NSF ) government had reached an agreement with the Hungarian government to restore ethnic and cultural rights denied to the Hungarian community of 2,000,000 people by the former regime of Nicolae Ceausescu . |
| 34 | He sang a few bars of it in a lusty baritone that filled the darkness , and oddly enough dispelled some of the tension that had been growing in her . |
| 35 | There was a throbbing urgency developing in the way they touched , a desperation in their kisses ; the yearning for fulfilment that had been growing in her since this man had first taken her was now a scream deep inside her , aching for him , crying for him , sobbing for him . |
| 36 | We 've been growing at a fairly significant rate considering we 've only been back about five years . |
| 37 | Those biomek filaments have been growing into the tank , you know . |
| 38 | As the miners ' issue has developed , demands have been growing for Michael Heseltine 's resignation . |
| 39 | But despite severe financial problems they have been growing in number and now produce around 40 per cent of Israel 's agricultural output and almost seven per cent of its industrial goods . |
| 40 | In Canada retail sales have been growing by as much as eight per cent a year , even after inflation . |
| 41 | Only the higher levels of secondary education , from the ninth grade onwards , have continued to expand , though they have been growing from a very low base . |
| 42 | Right , okay any other features about world trade , it 's been growing in volume , er , composition has changed , anything else how about the prices of agricultural goods ? are there any characteristics ? |
| 43 | Carriage driving for the disabled began about 20 years ago and it 's been growing in popularity ever since . |