Example sentences of "have increased [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though the subjects available as part of law degree courses have increased enormously in range in recent years , the balance of courses offered is still weighted considerably in favour of ‘ practical ’ subjects reflecting traditional private law concepts of property rather than the ‘ new property ’ in the many entitlements deriving from the public law that regulates the welfare state ( Abel , 1982 ; Zander , 1978 ) . |
| 2 | On top of this , the replacement costs of sewers ( indeed any buildings and plant ) have increased enormously . |
| 3 | And , I mean , reluctantly we have to accept that this is not an ideal world , but I mean , just now , we were actually looking at the number of food hygiene inspections that have been done over the last few months , which have increased enormously , it just means , I mean it emphasises the fact that food has changed , food , and the number of places that are actually serving food now I mean , the corner shop does sandwiches . |
| 4 | There are fewer organisations in the market than hitherto ( although the demands of each have increased proportionately ) . |
| 5 | Although three-quarters of these youngsters joined work experience schemes on employers ' premises , nevertheless the demands on the further education colleges have increased proportionately . |
| 6 | These fractions have increased slightly over the past decade , and are larger than in other sciences . |
| 7 | The numbers of both pupils and teachers have increased slightly since 1984 — the first increase since the early 1970s . |
| 8 | The demands on their budgets have increased both as a result of inflation pushing up costs faster than the retail price index and as a result of increased demand on their services . |
| 9 | Since then , company-car taxation scales have increased tenfold , but despite the supposed deterrent effect of this the number of people affected has risen to about 2m . |
| 10 | Complaints about noise have increased tenfold in the past fifteen years , and all the signs are that the problem is still getting worse . |
| 11 | portfolio investments into the UK have increased strongly . |
| 12 | Numbers applying for entry in September 1992 have increased even more sharply than a year ago and we currently anticipate a further large increase in first year entrants . |
| 13 | Even though it 's bad news overall that the total number of incidents have increased again , there is good new in that there seems to be this increase in awareness and realization and commitment on the part of The Farming Union , the farmers and the water authorities to take the problem seriously and tackle it . |
| 14 | Many farmers even in DRAs are wealthy on paper simply because land prices have increased dramatically during the last thirty years . |
| 15 | Since numbers of children on the streets or living in poor families have increased dramatically over the last decade and the extra resources for the Act 's implementation are likely to be strictly limited , demand for services is certain to outstrip supply . |
| 16 | Its sales have increased dramatically . |
| 17 | Their numbers have increased dramatically in recent years , with newcomers such as Labuan ( Malaysia ) , Malta and Mauritius trying to capture a slice of the business traditionally dominated by the likes of Bermuda and Jersey . |
| 18 | Although the Freer 's holdings have increased dramatically since the gallery opened — only 8% of the collections can now be exhibited at one time — it is nonetheless impossible to expand above ground near the Mall . |
| 19 | Just as the rewards for European golfers have increased dramatically over the last few years with a circuit worth nearly twenty million pounds , so have they for caddies . |
| 20 | In Britain consumption of meat has remained static over the past 20 years but ownership of freezers and the freezing of meat have increased dramatically . |
| 21 | In the USA , some 40 states restrict smoking in public places and workplace smoking policies have increased dramatically in the 1980s . |
| 22 | However , in recent years the processing power and storage capacity of computers have increased dramatically , and many more textual resources are now available in electronic form . |
| 23 | Pied-fly numbers have increased dramatically since nest box provision has become widespread practice in the sessile oak woods they prefer . |
| 24 | Obesity is an increasingly common problem ; and there are many other serious conditions that have increased dramatically in recent years , the more serious of which , such as high blood pressure and heart disease , are associated with obesity . |
| 25 | The numbers have increased dramatically recently : until 1977 fewer than 10 a year died but by 1988 it was 130 . |
| 26 | Irrespective of the decisions of the World Bank classifiers , however , it is an undeniable fact that in the 1990s most hitherto self-proclaimed socialist or communist countries are rapidly coming to an understanding with transnational capitalism , and that the scope and volume of the transnational practices of such states with the states and institutions of the capitalist system have increased dramatically in the last decade . |
| 27 | Erm the emphasis really on that has been highlighted in the Department of Transport 's own recent consultation document earlier this year where they looked at er trans-pennine routes right from from Derbyshire up to the er the A sixty six er looking at ways to relieve the pressure on the M sixty two where traffic flows have been in have increased dramatically over the last few years . |
| 28 | Since this Act came into effect , deportations have increased threefold to a rate where over 300 Black people are being deported every month . |
| 29 | In rural areas , employment opportunities are almost nil , while in the towns the numbers working in the informal sector have increased markedly . |
| 30 | Since the late 1950s especially , when Nepal opened its borders to outsiders , trekking and mountain-climbing groups have increased markedly and , as is the case in many developing countries , have been encouraged as a source of foreign income . |