Example sentences of "[noun sg] has increased [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the UK at the present time ( 1988 ) the balance of trade deficit has increased from £10.2 billion in 1987 to almost £20 billion in 1988 . |
| 2 | Operational income has increased from £1.701 m to £1.792 m and expenditure has risen from £1.643 m to £1.754 m . |
| 3 | It may be impossible to draw up a fitness league table but it is possible to say that complexity has increased during evolution . |
| 4 | Profit per employee has increased from £5,800 in 1989–90 to £11,800 in 1992–93 . |
| 5 | The Youth Club has increased in popularity this session and has a thriving expanding membership . |
| 6 | Since 1985 , he says , the number of MIPS in each machine has increased by 35% each year , but the price per MIPS of large systems has gone down by 15% . |
| 7 | Public awareness of the value of applying these techniques to archaeology has increased in consequence . |
| 8 | It is good to report that branch membership has increased by 46% over the last four years . |
| 9 | Spending on social security has increased by 41% over and above inflation — to well over £1 billion per week . |
| 10 | In the first , sometimes called a correlative approach , one can inject a radioactive precursor of protein or RNA synthesis into an animal , train it on a task , and ask if the amount of radioactivity in the protein or RNA has increased by comparison with that in appropriate control , ‘ non-learning ’ animals . |
| 11 | The size of the police establishment has increased by 15% since 1978–79 . |
| 12 | Dividend per share has increased from 3.0p in 1980 to 15.8p in 1989 — a compound growth rate of 20% per annum . |
| 13 | The total demand for water has increased by 70% over the last 30 years . |
| 14 | But now , according to Kenneth Lay , boss of Enron , a Texan gas producer and pipeline firm whose share price has increased by 22% since the start of the year , supply and demand of gas have moved roughly into balance . |
| 15 | Gas demand has increased from 12% to 16% of total energy consumed over the same period but the major energy source remains coal at nearly 60% of demand in 1983 . |
| 16 | Income under the category of Public Policy has increased to £173,141 but a sizeable element of this relates to a number of projects associated with the Council 's Diamond Jubilee Year and will not necessarily be repeated in the year ahead . |
| 17 | Although industrialization has tended to eliminate traditional crafts , the non-agricultural element of the rural economy has increased in importance since at least the nineteenth century . |
| 18 | ( This too is demonstrated by the statistics , for as RICS entrants have declined from 41.2% in 1981 to 26.5% in 1984 , so the graduate intake has increased from 6% to 13.8% over the same period . ) |
| 19 | The department 's budget in this area has increased from £218 million in 1981–82 to £310 million this financial year . |
| 20 | Other areas in which non-elected local government has increased in importance go right to the heart of the post-war system , in particular in reforms proposed for housing and education . |
| 21 | Legislation has increased in volume and complexity over the years . |
| 22 | It is interesting that since I have been the Minister responsible for regional policy , regional spending has increased from £506 million in 1990 to £534 million in 1991-92 . |
| 23 | This year 's winners of the NatWest Trophy will receive a record £27,500 prize — around £5,000 more than Pakistan collected for beating England in the World Cup final — because the total prize-money has increased to £73,350 . |
| 24 | The value of the project has increased from £3m to £8m . |
| 25 | As the organization has expanded , the demand for manpower related information has increased in terms of volume , range and depth . |
| 26 | Her taste for light food has increased with age and so she cooks a lot with vegetables ( which she also likes for their strong colours ) , although supplies of fresh produce are sometimes limited in North Wales . |
| 27 | As the task of sentencing has increased in complexity in recent years the role of this report has become steadily more important . |
| 28 | Our house has increased in value and we feel lucky that we 're not affected by the slump in the housing market . |
| 29 | An example of subjective probability is as follows : the Production Manager of a fast-growing microcomputer manufacturer , whose production has increased by 50% in the past year , without additional capital investment , now estimates the probability of repeating that 50% growth rate as .4 , given no change in investment levels . |
| 30 | As can be seen from the table below , the area of Champagne under vine which is in production has increased by 40% since 1970 . |