Example sentences of "[noun] have been growing [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Unrest had been growing in the Transylvanian region ever since December 1989 when the new National Salvation Front ( NSF ) government had reached an agreement with the Hungarian government to restore ethnic and cultural rights denied to the Hungarian community of 2,000,000 people by the former regime of Nicolae Ceausescu . |
2 | Those biomek filaments have been growing into the tank , you know . |
3 | Over the past fifteen years concern has been growing over the environmental effects and social costs of ‘ acid rain' . |
4 | Disillusionment with the ‘ big ’ government philosophy of the New Deal and the Great Society had been growing during the 1970s — even Carter had been fairly conservative in domestic policy . |
5 | Political pressure has been growing for the Queen to pay . |
6 | The buzzard population in the province has been growing over the last few years and is believed to currently stand at 650 . |
7 | Her salary has been growing to the point where she feels she can afford to buy a home and it promises to climb much further over the next few years . |
8 | Trade unions had been growing throughout the nineteenth century but they were still without those distinctive legal privileges which they acquired in 1906 . |