Example sentences of "[vb past] rapidly in the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 However , Soviet trade with the West expanded rapidly in the first half of 1989 , showing a 9 per cent growth in volume , while imports grew by about 11 per cent .
2 Commercial savings banks , used primarily but by no means exclusively by the working class — they attracted many lower-middle-class savers — expanded rapidly in the mid-nineteenth century .
3 It was significant in the nineteenth century but declined rapidly in the twentieth , as class became more important .
4 Thereafter , a similar histological pattern evolved rapidly in the second allograft from which biopsy specimens were taken at 14 , 26 , and 32 days .
5 The trade grew rapidly in the 18th century , when brassfounders , bucklemakers , button manufacturers , gunsmiths , toymakers and jewellers all moved in .
6 ‘ Hostility to the Forest system grew rapidly in the next twenty years . ’
7 The construction of recognisable , and still current , definitions of masculinity proceeded rapidly in the last decades of the nineteenth century , supplementing the earlier discussions .
8 The population of Korea averaged around eight million during the Yi era but increased rapidly in the twentieth century growing from approximately ten million in 1900 to about thirty million in 1949 .
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