Example sentences of "increased over [art] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Viewed now , nearly half a century later , these studies — attractive though they are — seem remarkably dated , for children 's rate of development has increased over the years and we are now more aware of the variety of kinds and degrees of development to be found among the individual boys and girls in one age group . |
| 2 | John said his misery increased over the years as several friends died of AIDS . |
| 3 | The regulation distance that a soakaway must be from the nearest building has increased over the years . |
| 4 | What is more unexpected is that such inequalities have increased over the years . |
| 5 | The second part of Table 3.6 , moreover , shows that the chances of youth of working class backgrounds being found in working class occupations , relative to those of young people from higher socio-economic backgrounds , have increased over the years . |
| 6 | All the available evidence also shows that these social class inequalities have declined very little or not at all , and , in some instances , they have increased over the years . |
| 7 | In brief , social class inequalities in access and use of the health services have remained either unaltered or slightly reduced but they have not increased over the years since the last war . |
| 8 | Shift work is even more a manual group activity and the trend has increased over the years . |
| 9 | The same table also shows that the proportion of women qualifying for unemployment benefit increased over the years so that it surpassed that of men . |
| 10 | The report says : ‘ Further evidence of the appeal of owner-occupation is that the proportion of council tenants expecting eventually to buy their present home has actually increased over the years . ’ |
| 11 | Of course , the number of applications approved has increased over the years , as has the assistance offered . |
| 12 | The grants , the of the grants of course increased over the years and the main thing about erm awards of course was to assess them and this is something which erm , I always felt a bit self conscious about because , we had this erm very comprehensive form where parents and erm , oh individuals when they were the students themselves had to complete and give very precise details of income |
| 13 | The overall number of postgraduate awards has considerably increased over the years . |
| 14 | According to UN officials , submissions by 121 governments to the UN Conference on Environment and Development ( UNCED ) preparatory committee show that while environmental awareness has increased over the years , problems are also increasingly seen in North-South terms . |