Example sentences of "has grown a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was pleased to see that , after its own trials , Bridgemere Nurseries in Cheshire , one of the biggest and best garden centres for plants in the country , has grown a quarter of a million herbaceous plants in coir compost . |
| 2 | Also , with healthy deciduous trees , the leaves all come with great show every Spring and die off in the Autumn — but more come each successive year cos the tree has grown a bit so the foliage is thicker , more complex in structure — until it dies of course . |
| 3 | Torquil Norman summed-up the ‘ life ’ that the airfield had regained , ‘ the place has grown a pace more through its own heritage than our input … it has taken on its own momentum … ’ |
| 4 | Some hive worlds consist of shell upon shell of plasteel braced by great pillars , as if the planet has grown a metal skin and then another skin and yet another , each successive skin being home to billions of busy human maggots , fleas , lice . |
| 5 | In its place has grown a concern to develop and sustain humane standards of custody : what Winston Churchill once described as ‘ one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country ’ . |