Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] sharply [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The range of newspapers read by the bulk of the British electorate has narrowed sharply over the last two decades — in terms of the political partisanship of mass-selling papers , if not in terms of the proliferation of low-circulation titles ( Newton , 1988a , p. 320 ; Tunstall , 1983 , p. 12 ) . |
| 2 | The income from customs dues , which had risen sharply in the first year of the reign , thanks to Mary 's reforms , was remarkably sluggish thereafter . |
| 3 | Corporate partnerships in engineering , electronics and computing , especially involving West Germany which accounted for 120 such partnerships , had increased sharply in the first half of 1990 . |
| 4 | By 1720 Peter I had reorganised the posolskii prikaz , whose importance had declined sharply in the last two decades , as a new college of foreign affairs . |
| 5 | The number and proportion of remarriages have risen sharply in the last two decades . |
| 6 | It is certainly true that employment opportunities for older men have declined sharply over the last eighty years , but it is far from clear that this has been solely due to a contraction of demand for them . |
| 7 | Judicial attitudes in both Britain and America have changed sharply over the last two centuries about the issue common to Elmer 's case and the snail darter case : how far and in what way legislative intention is relevant in reading statutes . |