Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] have been growing [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not surprisingly the British economy had been growing at only about half the average annual rate of 5.4 per cent for the EEC countries since 1953 . |
| 2 | However , during the same period the Japanese economy has been growing at about 3% per year . |
| 3 | Such conclusions had been growing in force in American higher education for many years , and especially since the investigation carried out by Harvie Branscomb , librarian of Duke University , in the later 19305 at the request of the Association of American Colleges . |
| 4 | In Canada retail sales have been growing by as much as eight per cent a year , even after inflation . |
| 5 | All these trees had been growing on peat do you see , and the peat was dry . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Political pressure has been growing for the Queen to pay . |
| 8 | Yet Jennifer in recent months has been growing through a difficult spell in the growing up process , particularly mentally . |