Example sentences of "improvement in [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pensioners , children , and people with disabilities were the groups with the first claim for an urgent improvement in benefits under Labour , Mr Smith said . |
| 2 | Again , the tendency towards progressive improvement in gazelles would slow to a halt , were it not for the parallel tendency to improvement shown by their predators . |
| 3 | You 'll have the sharp improvement in shareholders ' funds resulting from the write back of good will on the Elserver disposal and the consequent reduction in net borrowings , from four hundred and five to a hundred and eighteen million . |
| 4 | they did not consider that the process had led to any improvement in resources ; |
| 5 | Middle school teachers fall into mid-position on all items except use of staff collaboration and discussion where they experienced least change or improvement in resources consequent upon the review . |
| 6 | UK operations , which deal with just over half of the company 's clients , saw a steady 6% growth in revenues said to be underpinned by a healthy 12% improvement in exports . |
| 7 | The programme 's objectives included ( i ) a reduction in the rate of inflation from 89 per cent in 1989/90 to 15 per cent by 1992/93 ; ( ii ) an improvement in exports ; ( iii ) the creation of conditions favourable to efficient functioning of the private sector ; and ( iv ) the rehabilitation of basic services . |
| 8 | This decision will be reviewed shortly and it is hoped that the grants programme will be started again if there is a sufficient improvement in finances . |
| 9 | In the USA at least , there needs to be an improvement in scientists ' understandings of how to influence the allocation of funding for remedial measures or for further research ( see Kitsos and Ashe 1989 ) . |
| 10 | There is considerable ground for speculation about why the Opposition have adopted such a churlish attitude to proposals which are clearly well designed and will make a significant contribution to further improvement in attitudes to training . |
| 11 | Many of us will feel better psychologically when that spare tyre has been slimmed away , and if the diet combined with an exercise programme there can be a very real improvement in feelings of overall fitness . |
| 12 | However , allied to the improvement in companies ' financial position has been an increase in large companies ' liquidity ratios , to their highest level since the end of 1987 ( though this may have been partly at the cost of the liquidity of smaller companies , because of trade credit effect ) . |
| 13 | Since it enabled employers to replace the two-shift with a three-shift system in the mines , it produced little real improvement in miners ' living standards . |
| 14 | Does my hon. Friend agree that the stunning improvement in telecommunications in this country in the past 12 years has been led by British Telecom ? |
| 15 | But , with the help of the Scottish Prison Service , an improvement in conditions for Latvia 's 8,000 prisoners could soon be under way . |
| 16 | In conclusion , it seems that the increasing incidence of audit committees has not yet brought about any significant improvement in perceptions of corporate accountability and has not restored confidence in financial reporting . |
| 17 | These show that there has been a gradual improvement in girls ' performance in mathematics relative to that of boys . |
| 18 | For example , in the old 16+ system , despite a gradual improvement in girls ' achievements ( see , for example , the table below ) , each year more boys than girls were entered for O level mathematics , and of those who entered , a higher proportion of boys than girls obtained grade A. At CSE , the entry ( and pass ) rate of girls has in recent years been higher than that of boys — but boys have obtained the most grade I passes . |
| 19 | Many GPs see , as one put it , ‘ a general improvement in services , swifter treatment and generally more alacrity in their approach ’ . |
| 20 | Firstly , I 've just said , our budget protects what we call our Vale strategy , which is an improvement in services for elderly people in the Vale . |
| 21 | This , he said , has translated into a 22% improvement in earnings per share to 17.7 pence . |
| 22 | The Company will benefit because of the tax it saves and the resulting improvement in earnings in 1993–94 . |
| 23 | Where the target 's share price is depressed , a buy-back at market price may produce a modest improvement in earnings per share or asset value per share . |
| 24 | Moreover , notwithstanding the different degrees to which individual teachers appeared to have taken on board the implications for progressive pedagogies , we believe that a substantial improvement in teachers ' awareness of the potential of the library as a central resource , and of the development of information-handling skills entailed therein , was a real consequence of the project in this school . |
| 25 | While the number and proportion of women in paid employment has increased significantly since the Second World War , there has been only a very small improvement in women 's wages compared with those of men , and little growth in the range of occupations in which women are able to gain employment . |
| 26 | The once-and-for-all improvement in women 's relative pay associated with the enactment of equal pay legislation seems to have affected the female labour force indirectly by encouraging the deferment of childbearing in the mid-1970s . |
| 27 | The relationship between the improvement in women 's health and their emancipation has been widely noted . |
| 28 | This illustrates a point discussed later ( p. 181 ) that repeat overdoses often do occur despite apparent improvement in patients ' social circumstances . |
| 29 | Interestingly , oral adjunctive treatment with tobramycin results in significant clinical improvement in patients with ulcerative colitis compared with a comparable group of patients given placebo . |
| 30 | They reported a highly significant , dose-related response with active treatment , which reached a 43% overall improvement in patients receiving the dose used in our study . |