Example sentences of "has increased [prep] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now this interval has increased to thirteen months . |
| 2 | ATBC 's use in Britain has increased to 30 times the level of 1987 . |
| 3 | Cases are taking 16 months or more , with a backlog of 60,000 , and this must be rectified , especially as , we have been told , the number of applications has increased by 10 times in four years — from 5,000 in 1988 to 50,000 this year . |
| 4 | The annual report of the Forestry Commission — the state forestry body — notes that planting of broadleaved varieties of trees has increased by 10 times over the last decade . |
| 5 | Figures for 1987 , compared with those for 1984 , show that the total annual output has increased by 18,000 tonnes , while manufacture within specification has gone up by 36,000 tonnes . |
| 6 | Use of these fertilisers has increased by eight times since the 1950s , and allows farmers to grow one crop continuously without letting the ground recuperate . |
| 7 | The number of in-patients treated has increased by one point two million . |
| 8 | The number of in- patients treated has increased by one point two million . |
| 9 | Life expectancy has increased by two years . |
| 10 | All told , life expectancy has increased by two years for women in Britain in the last decade , and by two and a half years for men . |
| 11 | Life expectancy has increased by two years for women in Britain in the last decade and by two and a half years for men . |
| 12 | More than 27,000 pulses later the current has increased by 400 times and the pulse length by 600 times . |
| 13 | Guinness Flight , which has about £80m in its International Accumulation Fund , said the amount of investment in its funds has increased by 43 p.c. during the first three months . |
| 14 | The hole in the pension fund has increased by sixty-five percent over the last year . |
| 15 | My latest specimen has increased from 8 cm in November 1991 , to 30cm at the time of writing ( mid-June ) . |