Example sentences of "has risen [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 At the same time unemployment has risen to new levels for the post-war years and continues to remain high .
2 In year 3 , demand has risen to 3,000 units so that the desired capital stock goes up to thirty machines — since the firm already has twenty , another ten must be purchased .
3 In nineteen ninety two this has risen to two point two million and the indications are the ninety three figures are going to be much higher .
4 The inflation rate has risen to one point seven per cent .
5 The finite element method of finding numerical solutions to problems in elasticity , viscoelasticity , plasticity and fluid flow has risen to considerable prominence in the last 15 years .
6 The demand for health care has risen for many reasons .
7 The right hon. Gentleman forgets that manufacturing output fell under the last Labour Government and has risen under this Government .
8 The fishing for sand-eels alone has risen until last year ( 1989 ) a million tonnes were taken from the North Sea by EEC member countries .
9 Although food production has risen in many LDCs over the last thirty years , imports of cereals have increased .
10 Inflation in producer prices ( as opposed to retail prices ) has risen in recent months ; surveys of business opinion suggest that inflation in manufactured-goods prices is falling sharply .
11 The number of students successfully changing fields has risen in recent years and now stands at 30 per cent of the intake .
12 In the past 12 years , despite the protestations of the hon. Member for Renfrew , West and Inverclyde ( Mr. Graham ) , the funding of Scottish local authorities by Government has risen in real terms by 10 per cent .
13 Although the share of national wealth invested in education as a whole has gone down , taxpayer spending on publicity by the Department of Education and Science has risen in real terms since 1979 by no less than 28 times .
14 Despite that record , it is , of course , the case that unemployment has risen in this recession , as it has in all other recessions .
15 And the situation is getting worse … in the past five years the number of reported cases of serious backpain has risen by forty percent .
16 Global sea level has risen by 10–20 cm over the last century partly as a response to the 0.5 °C rise in global temperature during that time .
17 In fact , it has risen by 2.5 percent , forcing the government to import about 7 per cent of its supply from France , Belgium and Germany , most of which originates in nuclear generation .
18 V A T has risen from eight percent to seventeen and a half percent .
19 While life expectancy has risen from 46 years in 1961 to 59 years in 1977 , 20% of the infant population still die before reaching the age of five .
20 They showed the proportion of directors reporting improved order books has risen from 28 p.c. in February to 43 p.c. this month , while 37 p.c. say profits are higher compared with 30 p.c. two months ago .
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