Example sentences of "had grown to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1979 our fleet of cutters had grown to nine vessels and with the old " V " boats , Venturous , Valiant and Vigilant supported by our new dashing Trackers , Alert , Active , Champion , Challenge , Swift and Safeguard we had a force to be reckoned with as at last the big drug smuggling syndicates began to find to their cost . |
| 2 | The original membership of 10 — Belgium , Denmark , France , Britain , Ireland , Italy , the Netherlands , Luxembourg , Norway and Sweden — had grown to 18 by 1965 . |
| 3 | By 1980–1 , the number of CNAA first degree courses in art and design had grown to 196 , catering for over 15,350 students , of whom the great majority were to be found in the four Dip.AD specialist areas of Fine Art , Graphic Design , Three Dimensional Design and Textile and Fashion Design . |
| 4 | By 1513 , the dispute had grown to such proportions that , before the Battle of Flodden , when James IV challenged the Earl of Surrey to single-handed combat to decide their two nations ' grievances , the rewards to the victor were to include the return of the town of Berwick to Scotland , and the removal of the Esk fish garth . |
| 5 | The disturbances on the borders of Brecon , whether officially encouraged or not , had grown to such proportions that the King had despatched his brother the Earl of Cornwall to the march in haste to try and suppress them , and was himself in the act of setting out from Windsor to join him there . |
| 6 | During April the movement of magma within the volcano was indicated by a bulge which began to develop on its northeastern flank ; by 23 April this had grown to 100 m and was expanding at a daily rate of 1.5 m . |
| 7 | By the eighteenth century these four or five classes had grown to twelve : the and classes had all been divided into two , for example , and other classes had been added . |
| 8 | Thus the French foreign ministry , which had in 1814 some seventy employees with functions directly related to foreign policy ( i.e. excluding messengers , doorkeepers , etc. ) had still only ninety in 1870 ; but by 1914 this figure had grown to 170 . |
| 9 | Four-fifths of households already had a television set by 1962 and the figure had grown to 98 per cent in 1988 ( with 53 per cent having added a video recorder ) . |
| 10 | By 1935 the population of the urban districts had grown to 295,000 . |
| 11 | In 1961 there were 11 crimes recorded per police-officer , but by 1986 this had grown to 32 . |
| 12 | By March this year its membership had grown to 70,000 . |
| 13 | By 1600 , its population had grown to 200,000 out of a national population of 3.5 million . |
| 14 | Abolition of the rule preventing practice under limited liability has led to very considerable growth in this form of organisation and , by 1988 , the proportion of practices which had formed limited liability companies had grown to 7.5 per cent of the total . |
| 15 | By 1935 the figure had grown to 31,723 and by 1938 to 37,095 . |
| 16 | In the following year , 1980/81 , the staff had grown to 53 and two year groups of pupils were now in the school . |
| 17 | It all underlined what I 'd always believed — that Famlio had grown to big , scattered and over-confident , and could be eluded by someone who was small , concentrated and clever . |
| 18 | At the time of Ayliffe 's retirement the Association had grown to sixty-five branches . |
| 19 | It is true that by the time of Law 's dismissal the number of Councils had grown to 1,005 . |
| 20 | By 1986 the gap had grown to 20.5 per cent . |
| 21 | In 1885 France was in possession of a colonial empire which , in 25 years , had grown to three times its original size . |
| 22 | In the upper levels of the hills the occasional pools had grown to three times their normal size , and turned every bowl of rushy upland into marsh , where the army laboured perilously for every half-mile of painful progress . |
| 23 | The proportion of those on remand , that is , being held prior to trial or sentence , was 14.5 per cent in 1979 but in 1988 had grown to 23 per cent , with the average waiting time for trial at the Crown Court also increasing . |
| 24 | Ten years later Richard was farming 12 acres in Allerthorpe and his family had grown to seven children ; his parents were now living alone on another smallholding of 14 acres . |
| 25 | In the Bordelais , eight castellan families were to be found at the beginning of the twelfth century , but their number had grown to twenty-four by 1294 . |
| 26 | By 1986 , thy bumiputra share of equity among the 173 members of the Malaysian Chamber of Commerce and Industry , which broadly represented the international business community , had grown to 21 per cent . |
| 27 | A point of contrast a century and a half later is provided by the 1671 hearth tax return , by which time the seventy householders had grown to 122 . |
| 28 | By 1960 , their number had grown to 150 in 1960 and to over 600 by 1980 . |
| 29 | The length of motorway reached 1,000 kilometres only in 1970 , but had grown to 3,110 kilometres by 1988 . |
| 30 | NOV 1992 The number of Improvement Teams had grown to 20 . |