Example sentences of "[noun] grow [adv] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the wild they spawn in fast-flowing streams , and the fry grow up in the slower reaches of the river . |
| 2 | There are easy comparisons : both have kids growing up in the same neighbourhood . |
| 3 | Even as a child growing up in the Fifties , she and her sister , Marlene , preferred to spend their sixpence pocket money on animal welfare classes run by a local RSPCA inspector rather than go to the cinema . |
| 4 | A polity grew up in the nineteenth century that , through changes of regime , was characterized by its narrow social base and the ‘ exclusion of subordinate classes from any form of participation in the political sphere ’ ( Giner 1985 : 311 ) . |
| 5 | Consortium banks grew rapidly in the 1960s as a means of giving the owning institutions access to London 's money markets . |
| 6 | Since ferns grew best in the Wardian case , there was a fern craze in which every middle-class house displayed a collection of greenery . |
| 7 | Trade union membership grew rapidly in the expanding public sector , especially among women . |
| 8 | The business grew rapidly in the early 90s , ’ said Rob . |
| 9 | Oats grow best in the wetter , cooler parts of the country and are much more tolerant of poor , acid soils . |
| 10 | The numbers of students at the colleges of education grew rapidly in the late 1960s , reaching a total of 114,000 by 1972 . |
| 11 | We are now seeing the first signs of recovery and all forecasters expect to see our economy growing again in the coming year . |
| 12 | The trade grew rapidly in the 18th century , when brassfounders , bucklemakers , button manufacturers , gunsmiths , toymakers and jewellers all moved in . |
| 13 | Truth , Dare , Promise : Girls Growing Up in the Fifties ( Virago : 1985 ) |
| 14 | The monumental Portland Building rose in the early 1950s and teaching and residential accommodation space grew rapidly in the 1960s and 70s to keep pace with the growing demand for university places . |
| 15 | The population of the capital grew dramatically in the 18th and 19th centuries , just as it had done in the 17th , and despite the fact that its death rate was higher than the national average . |
| 16 | She believes that it is essential that her children grow up in the outside world and not be hidden away in the artificial environment of a royal palace . |
| 17 | Since her infancy Mann , a professional photographer , has documented her three children growing up in the idyllic woodlands of their dream home in south western Virginia . |
| 18 | Children growing up in the 1950s and 1960s were fortunate enough to enjoy the Eagle comic every week . |
| 19 | The Metropolitan Line grew fast in the 1860S and 1870S , the District Line joined it and it spread its branches out into the open countryside to the north-west of London . |
| 20 | In response to the massive changes that were taking place throughout Germany a whole series of patriotic clubs and societies grew up in the 1890s . |
| 21 | The bees are significantly more likely to bite half sisters than full sisters , even though all the bees grew up in the same hive ( Nature , vol 302 , p 147 ) . |
| 22 | Their four children grew up in the strict but loving atmosphere of the Medau College founded by Hinrich in Berlin in 1929 . |
| 23 | In a recent review of rural leisure and recreation research Owens ( 1984 ) has commented on not only how participation in rural leisure and recreation grew rapidly in the 1950s and 1960s , but how it was also accompanied by a surge of interest in applied research which has since spawned an enormous literature . |
| 24 | For a yearly payment of £5 he conveyed that piece of his estate to the Apothecaries Company , with one particular proviso : that every year fifty dried specimens grown there in the same year be supplied to the Royal Society of London . |
| 25 | ‘ Hostility to the Forest system grew rapidly in the next twenty years . ’ |
| 26 | SINEAD O'Connor grew up in the worst of environments and knows religion causes many of society 's problems . |
| 27 | His work as a paid negotiator caused him to travel through most of New South Wales arbitrating in disputes , taking part in conciliations and talking , talking , talking as industries grew up in the prospering state and workers flooded in from Britain , mostly from Ireland , to claim their share of what were meagre wages . |
| 28 | The importance of ministers grew especially in the eighteenth century . |
| 29 | Weeds and shrubs grow rapidly in the damp soils of the site , and it is quite a problem to keep the growth in check each summer . |
| 30 | I know , I know , it 's against all the rules of nature , and we free spirits grew up in the Sixties letting our hair just be , did n't we ? |