Example sentences of "there [verb] been a significant " in BNC.

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1 There has been a significant reduction in the numbers of young people placed in residential settings over the past two decades .
2 The reason for this is that Germany 's huge trade surplus is overwhelmingly with the Community ( approx. 70% of it was with the EC , although in late 1991 , there has been a significant drop , albeit temporarily , in Germany 's surplus ) .
3 There has been a significant growth in non-elected local government , of local quangos .
4 There has been a significant shifting of emphasis here .
5 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 .
6 Although it would be difficult to document the generalisation , it seems to me that there has been a significant decline , over the past ten or fifteen years , in the degree of confidence in the scope and security of foundations in both psychology and linguistics .
7 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 .
8 The same is true if he wishes to make a plot of the total energy of the aircraft to establish where there has been a significant increase or decrease in thrust or drag .
9 There has been a significant increase in the amount of sexual violence reported to the police .
10 In particular there has been a significant expansion of the ‘ downmarket ’ dailies .
11 It has been found that there has been a significant increase in the villagers ' understanding of all aspects of the disease .
12 In recognition of this fact , there has been a significant entrance of women into mainstream media — much more in western than in Third World countries , but to a noticeable extent in the latter as well .
13 Since 1951 there has been a significant decrease in the labour force participation of older male workers .
14 Since that report a BMA spokesperson says , ‘ there has been a significant shift in opinion .
15 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 .
16 Since the 1960s , there has been a significant rise in the proportions of households containing people living alone and single parents with dependent children .
17 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 .
18 Again , here , the social relationships of the professional market have persisted , but there has been a significant and growing development of some new relations , within an increasingly capitalized corporate sector .
19 Empirically however , the last century has been dominated by a major movement of people away from the countryside , although in the past 10 or 20 years there has been a significant repopulation of rural areas .
20 During the same period there has been a significant overall fall in employment and rise in unemployment , among 16–18-year-olds .
21 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 .
22 If I may hark back to the answer that I gave to the right hon. Member for Morley and Leeds , South ( Mr. Rees ) , one of the areas on which there has been a significant concentration by the Government and the security forces in recent years is the financial resources available to terrorists — I hasten to say on both sides of the community .
23 In recent years there has been a significant growth in interest in the study of children 's training about economic issues .
24 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 .
25 It appears to us all that there has been a significant drop in the numbers of telephone enquiries coming in to the Library since the new system went in .
26 In the UK , the present position is that microbiological processes are patentable so long as there has been a significant human intervention in the discovery of the organism and its isolation .
27 For most of the twentieth century , there has been a significant relationship between class and politics .
28 And after two or three years of ‘ what seemed like free fall ’ in the early 80s , there has been a significant levelling off in the sales graph and the cost base has been radically improved .
29 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 .
30 Although a significant feature of the 1990 accounts was the substantial fall in the value of investments there had been a significant recovery of the losses so far in 1991 :
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