Example sentences of "[noun] growth [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | After several decades of charting children 's vocabulary growth in the first half of the twentieth century , researchers began to focus on children 's acquisition of grammar-the rules for combining words into the sequences permissible in a language like English , e.g. , the big boy but not *the boy big , He brought the book , but not *He brought . |
| 2 | The long-established tendency for national populations to become more concentrated in large metropolitan centres and their surrounding hinterlands was found to be interrupted , if not broken : major cities were losing population not just from their older inner areas but from their whole city regions , while more remote rural areas with a history of depopulation began to record population growth for the first time for decades ( Morrison and Wheeler , 1976 ; Vining and Strauss , 1977 ; Vining and Kontuly , 1978 ; Brown and Wardwell , 1980 ; Fielding , 1982 ) . |
| 3 | In non-metropolitan districts as a whole the rate of population growth in the first years of the 1980s was less than half what it had been a decade earlier , though again most of the fall preceded 1978 . |
| 4 | According to the Economic Bulletin for Europe published on Nov. 23 , 1989 , by the UN Economic Commission for Europe ( ECE ) , there was a significant fall in output growth in the first half of 1989 in the member countries of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance ( CMEA or COMECON ) . |
| 5 | Although Sir Campbell did not expect the strong sales growth of the first half to continue , he anticipated satisfactory results for the full year . |
| 6 | The animal feed market has seen slow volume growth in the first part of 1993 with a relatively mild winter and Dairy farmers ' concern about their milk production going over quota combining to depress demand . |
| 7 | HT-29 cells in control media showed a rapid log phase growth in the first 14 days of culture ( Figure ) . |