Example sentences of "grew at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout the nineteenth century output per person grew at a rate of 1.5 per cent per annum . |
| 2 | Moreover , under the shadow of the great metallurgical and textile factories , small-scale enterprise and handicraft production grew at a pace comparable to that of heavy industry . |
| 3 | Spatially , this will be expressed in further counterurbanization and as Bradshaw and Blakeley ( 1979 , 27 ) point out : ‘ the rural areas [ of California ] grew at a rate nearly double that of the state as a whole ’ between 1970 and 1976 . |
| 4 | After averaging just 0.6% per annum through the 1970s , total factor productivity grew at a much faster rate of 1.6% per annum during the 1980s . |
| 5 | During these amazing years of unprecedented expansion Greater London grew at a much faster rate than the national population as a whole and faster than the suburbs of any provincial city . |
| 6 | As exemplified by the year two data shown in Table III , fewer patients with ileal and caecal inflammation or ileal inflammation alone grew at a subnormal velocity . |
| 7 | Sales rose 11 p.c. to £314m in 1991 and profits grew at the same rate , to £13.4m before taxation . |
| 8 | Through the summer of 1917 , impatience grew at the temporizing of the government . |
| 9 | The stones at its margins were bleached like bones and nothing grew at the water 's edge except rank thickets of bamboo . |
| 10 | Tall fir trees grew at the bottom by the boundary fence , casting long early-morning shadows across the lawn and the laurel hedges which enclosed it . |
| 11 | Doggett spurred away , followed by a reluctant Nosey , while Sharpe dismounted and led his horse back to the chestnut trees which grew at the road 's fork . |
| 12 | Outside , the garden was empty ; but Ruth found Adam where she 'd expected , under the big chestnut tree that grew at the end of the lane . |
| 13 | Osborne ( 1977 ) observed that young dog-whelks less than 12mm in shell length grew at the same speed , regardless of their habitat of origin , or where they were reared . |
| 14 | She felt her feet trailing through the weeds that grew at the side of the track , nettles and thistles tearing her skin as she was dragged through them at high speed . |
| 15 | One little plant grew at the foot of an old , bare rock . |
| 16 | The trouble was , as I and several other people pointed out , the universe was expanding so fast that even if the bubbles grew at the speed of light , they would be moving away from each other and so could not join up . |
| 17 | Here , the largest of the towns considered in this volume grew at the centre of an extensive pottery industry which came to supply widespread military and civilian markets . |
| 18 | But while Fabia 's feeling of excitement grew and grew at the prospect of seeing the country of her composer heroes at first hand , her sister 's excitement that she was actually going to interview Vendelin Gajdusek grew too . |
| 19 | Membership grew at an astonishing pace , reaching close to 30,000 in the late 1970s . |
| 20 | In the years between 1982 and 1988 the economy grew at an average of nearly 3 per cent per year . |
| 21 | Their gig attendances grew at an alarming rate and occasional support spots to The Fall were no longer a viable notion . |
| 22 | The bank 's deposits grew at an explosive rate from £8m in 1891 to £67m by 1908 . |
| 23 | According to Blecher , ‘ Per capita grain production grew at an average annual rate of 3.7 per cent from 1978 to 1984 , compared to 1.2 per cent during the previous thirteen years ’ ( Benewick and Wingrove 1988 : 100 ) . |
| 24 | In the fourth quarter of 1992 , the economy grew at an annual rate of 4.7% , which gave a roseate glow to Bill Clinton 's first few weeks in office but always looked too good to last . |
| 25 | However , most of the next decade was a testimony to the wisdom of the Bretton Woods arrangements since international trade grew at an unprecedented rate . |
| 26 | London grew at an astonishing rate , from about 60,000 in 1500 to approximately 200,000 in 1600 and to an enormous 575,000 in 1700 , by which time it was probably the largest city in Europe . |
| 27 | During the century after the Restoration rural industries such as framework knitting and nailmaking grew at an unprecedented rate and the industrial towns flourished as never before . |
| 28 | The comparative performance of the French economy may be judged more or less favourably , depending on the criteria and the time-frame used , but over the decade of the 1960s as a whole it grew at an annual rate that matched or surpassed the record of most of France 's main trading partners . |
| 29 | The leading sector , in terms of annual growth , had been data-processing equipment , which grew at an annual average of 30 per cent in real terms . |