Example sentences of "have grown by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thrushes are thought to be harmed by consuming slugs and snails which have been treated with molluscicides , whose use has grown by 900 per cent in recent years . |
| 2 | Wayne LaPierre , the NRA 's executive vice-president , gave a stirring speech , pointing out that the organisation 's membership has grown by 600,000 in the past 18 months , to more than 3m . |
| 3 | To put it into perspective , let me point out that since 1988 the German economy has grown by 10 per cent . |
| 4 | Other statistics from the survey showed that the number of employees in the sector has grown by one per cent and the total wages bill of £628 million was a 4.5 per cent increase . |
| 5 | Its population has grown by two-thirds since 1970 ; it now stands at 1.7m . |
| 6 | The science budget has grown by 24 per cent in real terms since 1978–79 . |
| 7 | Traffic has grown by 50 per cent in a decade in which it has operated without a subsidy . |
| 8 | Gross domestic product was estimated to have grown by 8.3 per cent during 1989 . |
| 9 | The small town that had a dozen mills and a population of 10,000 at the beginning of the nineteenth century had grown by 1890 to a place of 130,000 people and 265 mills , and was called ‘ the greatest cotton-spinning town in the world ’ . |
| 10 | Kiyonga said that gross domestic product ( GDP ) had grown by 6.8 per cent in 1989/90 , slightly down on the 1988/89 growth rate of 7.2 per cent . |
| 11 | Figures for the first half of 1990 showed that the trade gap had grown by 62 per cent to $1,870 million . |
| 12 | The central bank 's annual report , released in February 1991 , showed that GDP had grown by 2.3 per cent in 1990 , but would slow in the 12 months to end-June 1991 as a result of an increase in oil prices and the loss of remittances from Iraq caused by the Gulf war . |
| 13 | Measured in value terms , world trade in 1988 had grown by 14 per cent to USdollars 2,880,000 million during 1988 . |
| 14 | Official figures released on Feb. 9 showed that the Czechoslovak economy had grown by 1.7 per cent in 1989 , compared with 2.8 per cent the previous year . |
| 15 | Since 1972 ( the run-up to the Middle East oil crisis ) , the amount of heated space per capita in homes in most OECD countries had grown by 25 per cent . |
| 16 | The population of Great Britain had grown by 1801 to 10.5 million , compared with 7.4 million in 1750 . |
| 17 | Industrial production , he said , had grown by 5.5 per cent in 1989 , less than expected because of interrupted production in the second half of the year due to sabotage of power transmission lines to Maputo from South Africa . |
| 18 | While share prices are little changed on their 1987 peak , dividends have grown by 70 p.c . ’ |
| 19 | While bank deposits have stagnated over the past three years , mutual funds , which are mostly outside the banks ' domain , have grown by two-thirds . |
| 20 | Industrial production and import investments have grown by 2.1 per cent and 2.7 per cent respectively . |
| 21 | Their numbers have grown by more than a third since 1979 , while the number of self-employed people has grown to over 12 per cent of the workforce . |
| 22 | In fact , following cuts in the Seventies , NHS resources have grown by 50 per cent , even allowing for inflation . |