Example sentences of "[verb] increased [prep] [art] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The regulation distance that a soakaway must be from the nearest building has increased over the years . |
| 3 | Shift work is even more a manual group activity and the trend has increased over the years . |
| 4 | Of course , the number of applications approved has increased over the years , as has the assistance offered . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The concept of greater parental involvement was favourably received , and this involvement has increased in the years since Plowden . |
| 7 | What is more unexpected is that such inequalities have increased over the years . |
| 8 | The second part of Table 3.6 , moreover , shows that the chances of youth of working class backgrounds being found in working class occupations , relative to those of young people from higher socio-economic backgrounds , have increased over the years . |
| 9 | All the available evidence also shows that these social class inequalities have declined very little or not at all , and , in some instances , they have increased over the years . |