Example sentences of "[verb] grown [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jimmy and Gwenda Cornell 's ARC team has grown since the first event in 1986 . |
| 2 | My mum has a passion fruit plant and it has grown for the first time . |
| 3 | As communication between Chinese Christians and Christians from around the world has grown over the last few years , the need for a regular English language update of information on Church life in China at all levels has been expressed in many quarters . |
| 4 | Despite the law , the company has grown over the last year . |
| 5 | The proportion of jobs with pension schemes has grown in the last twenty years , with the result that the ‘ young ’ elderly have a greater chance of benefiting from them than the older elderly . |
| 6 | Named from the small house or ‘ booth ’ of a person named Foster the place had grown by the 17th Century to become ‘ a fair street of inns ’ . |
| 7 | So the tumour , if tumour it was , had grown in the last six months . |
| 8 | Either the tumour in my lung had grown in the last three and a half weeks , in which case it must be even more in evidence , or it had stood still , in which case today 's X-rays must be much the same as the previous ones , or it had diminished . |
| 9 | Around the Stratford locomotive works a powerful cooperative movement had grown in the last third of the nineteenth century , and from the Beckton gasworks in 1889 new unionism had sprung . |