Example sentences of "[vb -s] been a enormous [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is 2 years since the first edition of this booklet was printed and during this time there has been an enormous increase in interest in the use of LM potencies . |
| 2 | A study of gender and enrolment patterns since 1980 reveals that , although there has been an enormous increase in the absolute numbers of both girls and boys attending school , at secondary level the drop-out rate for girls is not only high , but in proportional terms fewer girls reach fourth to sixth form ( 'O' and ‘ A ’ level grades ) than was the case in the 1970s , when for the most part only privileged whites reached these levels . |
| 3 | In recent years there has been an enormous increase in the range and complexity of capital market instruments . |
| 4 | First , there has been an enormous increase in the pressure on the parks . |
| 5 | While there is still some debate about whether or not anorexia nervosa has become more prevalent , there can be no doubt that there has been an enormous increase in research interest into this subject . |
| 6 | In the last 15 years there has been an enormous increase in the volume of frozen chips being consumed , even although straight-cut chips for frying still account for more than half the chips bought . |
| 7 | And there has been an enormous expansion in the training budget . |
| 8 | So although there has been an enormous expansion of federal aid , there 's also been a vast expansion of state spending and state tax raising . |
| 9 | As you will see from this issue of AEA Times , there has been an enormous response to the announcement that we are to restructure into three divisions from 1 April next year . |
| 10 | It has been an enormous success in central and eastern Europe . |
| 11 | The privatisation programme has been an enormous success in recent years and not the least part of that success has been the extent to which it has widened and deepened share ownership around the country . |
| 12 | Ferguson said : ‘ After losing Lineker , Gascoigne and Paul Stewart , it has been an enormous upheaval for them — but they are starting to build again . |
| 13 | Yes , similarly there has been an enormous change in the treatment in myocardial infarction in the last few years , not only with angioplasty , but also with thrombolysis : 70%-80% of general physicians now use thrombolysis routinely . |
| 14 | So within twenty years there has been an enormous change . |
| 15 | To the general public the result of all this integrated activity has been an enormous improvement in the standard of living . |
| 16 | My hon. Friend is right to say that there has been an enormous improvement . |
| 17 | Is the Minister further aware that there has been an enormous erosion of confidence in the reliability and roadworthiness of buses since deregulation , especially in south Wales during a period in which monopolies have been created as stronger firms capture weaker ones and cowboy fleets undercut the operations of firms that are much more conscientious and safety conscious ? |
| 18 | Mr. Walker : During the period of this enormous fall in unemployment , there has been an enormous surge of inward investment and great diversification of the economy . |
| 19 | There is general agreement that on all key measures there has been an enormous growth not only in the availability but also in the use of the mass media in the developed world over the last few decades . |
| 20 | There has been an enormous amount of interest in this new and exciting role . |
| 21 | There has been an enormous amount of employment legislation in the last decade or so , and haulage companies have had to integrate this with the already extensive legal requirements which govern their operations . |
| 22 | ‘ There 's been an enormous change over the last 30 or 40 years , a much greater acceptance of sexual differences , despite the moral politics of Mrs Thatcher and Aids . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's been an enormous change . |
| 24 | But yes , erm it , it 's partly sediment brought down from inland , it 's also the fact that you have offshore of Rye the area of Winchelsea Beach and so-called Rye Harbour which is somewhat detached from the town of Rye , and there 's been an enormous accumulation of shingle there , so that the Castle , which was built in , that 's Camber Castle which was built in the reign of Henry the Eighth , since that time the shoreline at Winchelsea Beach , as a result of the accumulation of shingle , has moved in excess of one point five kilometres seaward of that point , and so obviously erm Rye is now much further inland than it was at that time . |