Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] more [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are signs that the current-account deficit is growing more slowly than last year . |
| 2 | They appear to show that , at least in the richest countries with the toughest environmental standards , municipal waste is growing more slowly than the economy as a whole . |
| 3 | Also VDEW ( Vereinigung Deutscher Elektrizitatswerke ) , the association of German utilities , points out that electricity is gradually increasing its share of the industrial market and total consumption is growing more quickly than energy consumption . |
| 4 | The rise in long-term unemployment and the increase in child poverty since the mid 1970s is likely to mean that the health of the lower social classes is improving more slowly than it should and would have done , rather than that it is getting worse . |
| 5 | It presumed that the particular classroom layouts and patterns of organization commended would promote children 's learning more effectively than any others . |
| 6 | Among other black and ethnic minority psychology students , the tendency to take Ph.Ds in health and services areas remains strong , and is increasing more rapidly than is true for psychology Ph.Ds in general . |
| 7 | Thus we have arrived at today 's rural scene , which , with modern technology , is changing more rapidly than ever . |
| 8 | They hope the deficit will anyway shrink rapidly , and they have reason to think so : unemployment is falling more quickly than in previous recessions . |