Example sentences of "has increased [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It may help to see how the need for process studies was perceived to exist and then to proceed to indicate in which branches studies were undertaken using what methods as a basis for assessing how our knowledge has increased in spatial terms and in time with reference to catastrophic views .
2 Certainly the number of patents and papers concerning natural antiulcer products and derivatives has increased in recent years .
3 Although the number of prosecutions and level of fines has increased in recent years , there were only 61 convictions in 1989 .
4 Moreover , its significance has increased in recent years relative to the role of natural increase .
5 This is partly because of the difficulty in deciding where boundaries should be drawn , a difficulty which has increased in recent years with the development of new organizational forms ( such as ‘ hived-off ’ agencies ) and with the increasing interpenetration of the public and private sectors .
6 The incidence of claims has increased in recent years .
7 There is some evidence that the incidence of radiation bowel disease has increased in recent years as a result of changes in long established techniques .
8 The choice of time for instigating the policy would be important here ; the cost of mortgage tax relief in 1988 has increased in annual terms from £5 billion to over £6.5 billion .
9 Insofar as the UK is concerned , very little of this activity takes place at end consumer levels , but its use has increased in industrial markets in support of sales , especially in relation to the following :
10 Expenditure per pupil has increased in real terms by 49 per cent .
11 Nevertheless , the investigator 's earlier research in Atlanta , Georgia , shows that , in this city , residential segregation remains , the gap between predominantly black and white areas has increased in important respects , and inequality among black neighbourhoods has increased .
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