Example sentences of "[vb -s] [be] a [adj] growth " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finch ( 1989:290–1 ) asserts that there has been a progressive growth in the routine surveillance of political ‘ subversives ’ over the past decade . |
| 2 | As a result there has been a substantial growth in customer visits and a significant increase in our market share . |
| 3 | Specialization has often assembled both primary and secondary material for a specific area or topic in a centre such as the Hoover library at Stanford in California , and there has been a plenteous growth of specialist periodicals and learned societies . |
| 4 | There has been a tremendous growth in exports in the aerospace industry , as in other industries . |
| 5 | There has been a remarkable growth in the amount of space and time devoted to environment issues in the mass media . |
| 6 | During the period of the Conservative government there has been a marked growth in pay inequality . |
| 7 | In Italy , also , although industry agreements are still important , there has been a marked growth since the 1960s of decentralised bargaining at plant and company level , in contrast to the previously highly centralised system . |
| 8 | The estate agency sector has been one of the most dynamic industrial sectors in 1980s Britain , and there has been a large growth both in the number of firms of estate agents and in the numbers employed within these firms . |
| 9 | There has been a large growth in the number of buy-out/buy-in deals carried out , at the expense of start-up business . |
| 10 | And there has been a rapid growth in three types of industry : light factory industry , services and tourism . |
| 11 | During the last ten years there has been a rapid growth in availability of computer-based online information retrieval systems . |
| 12 | Since the introduction of the first IBM 370 series processor in the late 70's , there has been a rapid growth in computerisation . |
| 13 | The effect has been a rapid growth in both consumer incomes and consumption opportunities . |
| 14 | At the same time , there has been a rapid growth in arms trade . |
| 15 | Internationally , there has been a rapid growth in the use of NGVs. from Argentina , with 100 , OOO vehicles , to Italy with 250 , OOO . |
| 16 | It might be noted at this point that in recent years there has been a dramatic growth in the volume of business conducted in the interbank market and this has become a major source of liquidity for banks . |
| 17 | Instead he infers from another piece of evidence , the growth in service employment , that there has been a simuItaneous growth in the provision of final ( immaterial ) services to consumers . |
| 18 | Having now examined the objectives and formal structural characteristics of trade unions in market-type economies , it is also necessary to consider their more informal organisation at workplace level since , in many Western European countries during the post-World War II period , there has been a notable growth of bargaining at plant level — often outside official union channels — along with a progressive enlargement of its scope ( see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 19 | There has been a considerable growth in the demand for applied social science from industry and , particularly , government , reflecting the increased willingness of governments to intervene in society ( whether their own or someone else 's ) , so that sociologists are being increasingly consulted in respect of certain problems ranging from population control to terrorist control . |
| 20 | At the undergraduate level there has been a considerable growth in degrees which add a phrase such as ‘ with Study in Europe ’ to an existing degree in science or engineering . |
| 21 | In recent years there has been a considerable growth in the use of microcomputers for the analysis of qualitative data . |
| 22 | As a result , there has been a steady growth in the number of companies that have an audit committee — around two-thirds of the top 150 UK listed industrial companies and the great majority of UK listed financial institutions now have audit committees , and in more than half these cases , the committees were established within the past five years . |
| 23 | However , one of the most significant trends of the last three decades has been a steady growth in the number of women in the labour force . |
| 24 | There has been a steady growth in the newer area of sales to retail outlets , some of which are supermarkets but many of which are traditional grocery shops . |
| 25 | The trends observed by analysis of Table 3 suggest that there has been a steady growth in research on Scottish geology , but that there have been differences in growth rates between universities over the time interval . |
| 26 | In recent years there has been a steady growth in the use of tribunals to deal with legal disputes rather than courts . |
| 27 | There has been a significant growth in non-elected local government , of local quangos . |
| 28 | In recent years there has been a significant growth in interest in the study of children 's training about economic issues . |