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

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1 I think the things that have come out of this for me er from Councillor actually is that it would be unlikely that we , we or would be allocating that plan today and I think the amount of traffic has increased through the town centre would make it foolish and one does wonder at the wisdom if all the development went along which had to be serviced then through er Street and through the town centre in to the main areas of employment that happened years ago .
2 Of the programme 's two main objectives , the Institution believes awareness has increased over the year , but the lack of action taken has , in some ways , been disappointment .
3 Viewed now , nearly half a century later , these studies — attractive though they are — seem remarkably dated , for children 's rate of development has increased over the years and we are now more aware of the variety of kinds and degrees of development to be found among the individual boys and girls in one age group .
4 The regulation distance that a soakaway must be from the nearest building has increased over the years .
5 Shift work is even more a manual group activity and the trend has increased over the years .
6 Of course , the number of applications approved has increased over the years , as has the assistance offered .
7 According to UN officials , submissions by 121 governments to the UN Conference on Environment and Development ( UNCED ) preparatory committee show that while environmental awareness has increased over the years , problems are also increasingly seen in North-South terms .
8 the proliferation of technical manuals over the last twenty years has meant that the number of manuals supplied with complex aircraft/systems has increased to the point where it is practically impossible to access all the information in the ‘ library ’ ( Fig. 1 shows an example of technical manual growth rate within the Naval Air Systems Command ) ;
9 So knowledge of APRs has increased to the point where most Americans can now say roughly what the APR is on credit they use .
10 Speculation that supporters of Prince Charles are hitting back by leaking hurtful items to the media has increased with the number of anti-Diana stories that have proved false .
11 The number of new businesses has increased at the rate of almost 90 per day for every day since 1979 .
12 While the arable area has increased at the expense of ornithologically more interesting permanent grassland , there has been a simultaneous reduction of the one-year ley , usually clover , within the arable system , combined with an increasing use of herbicides .
13 In developed countries , fat intake has increased at the expense of a reduction in complex carbohydrates .
14 The percentage of the older age groups who are female has increased since the beginning of this century .
15 At the same time , the size of the sixteen to nineteen age group in Wales has increased as the bulge in the birth rate in the mid-1960s , having passed through the school system , is now affecting the further education colleges .
16 There 's been a lot of concern over the past few months of the rate of increase in unemployment within the Harrogate District and how as a percentage unemployment has increased in the Harrogate District rather than other districts .
17 The pace has increased in the government 's third term of office .
18 The concept of greater parental involvement was favourably received , and this involvement has increased in the years since Plowden .
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