Example sentences of "[noun sg] have been growing [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Literature about informal carers and the experience of caring has been growing ever since the pioneering work of Abrams ( e.g. 1980 ) . |
| 2 | The new body had been growing steadily for weeks . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Later my surgeon was to tell me that the cancer had been growing away for many years . |