Example sentences of "[been] a significant [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been a significant increase in the amount of sexual violence reported to the police . |
| 2 | It has been found that there has been a significant increase in the villagers ' understanding of all aspects of the disease . |
| 3 | Clearly there appears to have been a significant increase in activity across all age groups , but especially among the older age groups . |
| 4 | As with the use of acute beds there has been a significant increase in utilisation by older people during the years 1976 — 86 . |
| 5 | Intelligence suggested that personnel had recently returned and there had been a significant increase in the number of aircraft seen and in the locations at which they had been sighted . |
| 6 | Yet the proportion of the total population aged 65 and over in this category is estimated from the NDHS for each Authority and is now ten years out of date , during which period there has been a significant increase in the numbers of elderly , including the very old . |
| 7 | The success of Britain ‘ s efforts within Europe can therefore largely be judged in terms of the rate at which trade has expanded between Member States , the extent to which this has been based on free and fair competition , and on whether there has been a significant increase in trade between countries of the EEC and the world outside . |
| 8 | There had been a significant fall in the number of new arrivals since the October agreement — only seven between January and mid-May 1992 , compared with 3,920 in the corresponding period in 1991 . |
| 9 | There had been publicity for occasional outbursts of violence and bad language or for shocking displays of sexuality , but there had never really been a significant breakthrough in terms of outspoken social statement . |
| 10 | Some 24 per cent of children drop out at the transition from primary to secondary school , while at secondary level there has recently been a significant rise in the drop-out rate . |
| 11 | Since the 1960s , there has been a significant rise in the proportions of households containing people living alone and single parents with dependent children . |
| 12 | Yes erm when this policy has been a significant issue in dealing with either the local plan or er |
| 13 | If these outcomes had not been possible , would protest by sufficient members have been a significant factor in determining that the organisation had acted contrary to its constitutive treaty ? |
| 14 | Lord Salisbury 's active and generous support of the BDA and of the deaf community as a whole has been a significant factor in the development of the Association in recent years . |
| 15 | Nat West says that late payment has recently been a significant factor in the demand for bank finance . |
| 16 | There will no longer be a requirement to include an accountant 's report in listing particulars or circulars unless there has been a significant change in the company 's financial position within the last three financial years , or its accounts in any of those three years have been qualified . |
| 17 | There has been a significant reduction in the numbers of young people placed in residential settings over the past two decades . |
| 18 | More than £150,000 of Northern regional health authority and South West Durham District Heath Authority cash has been allocated towards eliminating two-year waits and there has also been a significant reduction in those waiting between 12 and 23 months . |
| 19 | ‘ More quantifiably , there 's been a significant improvement in productivity and activity out of a budget which is increasing in real terms but not by much . |
| 20 | A tight monetary policy , the report indicated , could only be reversed once there had been a significant improvement in the country 's balance of payments position and a slowdown in strong inflationary pressures . |
| 21 | There has , I believe , been a significant improvement in liaison between the Bar and the Inns . |
| 22 | Since that report a BMA spokesperson says , ‘ there has been a significant shift in opinion . |
| 23 | There has , for example , been a significant shift in investment from the public to the private sector . |
| 24 | There has been a significant growth in non-elected local government , of local quangos . |
| 25 | There has also been a significant growth in the number and size of black-led Pentecostal churches during the last two or three decades . |
| 26 | In recent years there has been a significant growth in interest in the study of children 's training about economic issues . |
| 27 | There has also been a significant decline in the cult of the saints , and many of the practices which characterized the devotional revolution of the mid-nineteenth century . |
| 28 | With the demolition of so much property at the centre of Birkenhead there has been a significant decline in the number of St Laurence 's parishioners . |
| 29 | However , the proportion of women who are full-time housewives has significantly dropped during the post-war period and , since married women who have paid employment spend less time on housework than those without paid work , this means that overall , there has been a significant decline in the amount of time the average woman will spend doing housework . |
| 30 | That prior to despatch of the Information memorandum we have the right to renegotiate the fee scale triggers should it be apparent that there has been a significant decline in land values . |