Example sentences of "[noun] have been growing [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A. The number of people in the larger cities has been growing rapidly during the last 50 years . |
| 2 | In the rural areas of Wales and Scotland the tradition of non-partisan elections continues in some areas , but even so the role of the parties has been growing consistently since local government reorganisation ( Gyford and James 1983:2 ; Keating and Midwinter 1983 ; 107 — 13 ) . |
| 3 | Literature about informal carers and the experience of caring has been growing ever since the pioneering work of Abrams ( e.g. 1980 ) . |
| 4 | He said he and wife Brenda had been growing apart for at least a year . |
| 5 | The new body had been growing steadily for weeks . |
| 6 | Divorce figures have been growing steadily in the UK since 1971 when the Divorce Reform Act 1969 came into force . |
| 7 | Another factor which made Russian foreign policy different in kind from that of the other Great Powers in 1880 was that , like Great Britain ( with whom she often came into conflict over them ) , she had great extra-European interests , both in the Far East and central Asia , where her territories , influence and commerce had been growing steadily for twenty years . |
| 8 | They pointed out that , because of a simultaneous fall in the numbers of unemployed and of teenagers , expenditure per head on training had been growing rapidly since the mid-1980s . |
| 9 | Later my surgeon was to tell me that the cancer had been growing away for many years . |
| 10 | The dome of Santiaguito in Guatemala has been growing ever since 1922 , and was still growing at the time of writing . |