Example sentences of "been growing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have been growing less and less interested in titles that are other than purely descriptive . |
| 2 | For who within the service is seeking or is willing to dismantle these units whose power and autonomy has been growing in strides since the Royal Commission of 1960 and the subsequent Police Act of 1964 first created the amalgamated giants ? |
| 3 | The Dockerty family have been growing hops since Tudor times and know a thing or two about them . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've visited Australia 's one and only organic wine producer at Mudgee where he 's been growing organically for 30 years . |
| 5 | Razumikhin himself may or may not have come from the country , but he is certainly a member of the floating , unbelonging population of students and ex-students , and he records in simple puzzlement that Raskolnikov has been growing increasingly moody and suspicious and introverted ; ‘ he has no time for anything , people are always in his way , and yet he lies about and does nothing ’ — a confirming echo of Raskolnikov on his bed telling Nastasya the maid that he is working , by which he means thinking . |
| 6 | STERLING hung like a pall over commodity markets which have been growing more gloomy for their own reasons in recent months . |
| 7 | Mr Mladenov followed his appointment as Communist Party General Secretary with a speech clearly aimed at the country 's dissident movement , which has been growing . |
| 8 | Concern has been growing for some time now , voiced not only by the media but also by some high-powered academics , ex-civil servants and former senior government statisticians , that official information which should be wholly objective is being distorted , suppressed or otherwise interfered with to serve the political ends of the government . |
| 9 | There can be no doubt that the momentum in favour of German unity , as one state or a confederation , has been growing in East Germany . |
| 10 | Interest in the production of foods without the use of chemicals has been growing rapidly . |
| 11 | They pointed out that , because of a simultaneous fall in the numbers of unemployed and of teenagers , expenditure per head on training had been growing rapidly since the mid-1980s . |
| 12 | She was in high spirits ; the idea which had been growing in her with increasing , undeniable force was now going to become a reality . |
| 13 | The new body had been growing steadily for weeks . |
| 14 | ‘ Fan have been growing bored with the sex and drugs and rock and roll syndrome . |
| 15 | The company has also been growing by acquisition , with the purchase earlier this year of the American pumpmaker Peabody Floway using £12m of its £46m cash . |
| 16 | That run has encouraged a rash of buying interest in Tokyo , where hopes have been growing that the worst of the big recent price falls may be over . |
| 17 | Since the 1960s there have been growing suspicions that Alzheimer 's disease ( a form of senile dementia ) is associated with high levels of aluminium . |
| 18 | Tension would then have been growing by the hour , and it must have been hard indeed for the men to keep themselves from being overstressed by apprehension and excitement . |
| 19 | But in industrial countries in particular — or in countries that abut industrial countries — the rain has been growing steadily more acidic in recent decades , to the point where it has already done severe damage to ancient buildings and statues , where it is has virtually destroyed vast numbers of trees in continental Europe ( notably Germany ) and killed most of the life , including the fish and crayfish , in many of the lakes and rivers of Scandinavia . |
| 20 | ‘ So long you been growing out of childhood , now you step into womanhood . |
| 21 | I have been growing small plots for some years , but have not yet solved the problem of threshing . |
| 22 | The dome of Santiaguito in Guatemala has been growing ever since 1922 , and was still growing at the time of writing . |
| 23 | However , during the same period the Japanese economy has been growing at about 3% per year . |
| 24 | Parallel with these events in Belgrade , and in mutual interaction , there has been growing anti-Albanian agitation among the Serbs and Montenegrins in Kosovo . |
| 25 | Only the higher levels of secondary education , from the ninth grade onwards , have continued to expand , though they have been growing from a very low base . |
| 26 | Later my surgeon was to tell me that the cancer had been growing away for many years . |
| 27 | Fortunately , technical developments have ensured that the increase in computing power per unit cost has been growing at about an order of magnitude every 6 years over the last three decades . |
| 28 | G. The tourist industry of the South West has been growing since the railways were built in the last century . |
| 29 | C. As a port , Bristol has been growing in size and trade . |
| 30 | F. Four New Towns have been growing rapidly as they attract some of the population to better housing and new jobs in their own footloose industries . |