Example sentences of "[noun] have increased over the " in BNC.

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1 The regulation distance that a soakaway must be from the nearest building has increased over the years .
2 By contrast , palaeontology had increased over the same periods , from 14 to 25 , not quite doubling .
3 " The level of abstraction and consumption has increased over the last century by hundreds of times , and perhaps in some cases by thousands .
4 The optimistic reading is that we have been successful , in that the number of men convicted of rape has increased over the last decade by 39 per cent in the case of rape , 2 per cent in the case of sexual assault , and 55 per cent in the case of incest .
5 Erm looking at the employ sorry looking at the output side er the question looking at trends and output over the last four months shows that in all the four regions manufacturers say that output has increased over the preceding four months .
6 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 .
7 Fuel and Energy Miniser Yury Shafranik said that the waste of energy resources had increased over the past two years and that energy use had remained stable , despite falling production .
8 If anything , the Windsor Park attendance figures have increased over the past year .
9 For wheat , er total world , world trade has increased over the last thirty years , from er , it 's there somewhere , er , from about sixty , from forty one thousand three hundred and seventy seven thousand metric tonnes to er to about eighty four thousand four hundred and four thousand metric tonnes
10 The fish on the bench have increased over the year and he asked everyone to bring out just one fish every meeting .
11 Of the programme 's two main objectives , the Institution believes awareness has increased over the year , but the lack of action taken has , in some ways , been disappointment .
12 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 .
13 Shift work is even more a manual group activity and the trend has increased over the years .
14 The head of Nicaraguan Army intelligence , Maj. Ricardo Wheelock , replied on Sept. 13 that military attacks from Honduran territory had increased over the past two weeks .
15 In London , salaries have increased over the past six months , which to some degree reflects the calibre of the person sought within each grading .
16 Unlike most manufactured goods , however , the real price of most services has increased over the last few decades .
17 Feedback on how effective you are and how your effectiveness has increased over the two days .
18 What is more unexpected is that such inequalities have increased over the years .
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