Example sentences of "grow in the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the tumour , if tumour it was , had grown in the last six months . |
| 2 | Either the tumour in my lung had grown in the last three and a half weeks , in which case it must be even more in evidence , or it had stood still , in which case today 's X-rays must be much the same as the previous ones , or it had diminished . |
| 3 | Around the Stratford locomotive works a powerful cooperative movement had grown in the last third of the nineteenth century , and from the Beckton gasworks in 1889 new unionism had sprung . |
| 4 | The proportion of jobs with pension schemes has grown in the last twenty years , with the result that the ‘ young ’ elderly have a greater chance of benefiting from them than the older elderly . |
| 5 | Well we have n't grown in the last three years as a service |
| 6 | In a reverse image of Mr Major 's public appearances , as the Labour leader 's belief in victory grew in the last days , so his studied calm and restraint slipped away , and a fatal hint of the ‘ cocky Welsh boyo ’ marked his public performances . |