Example sentences of "increased [adv] over [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hay fever has increased four-fold over the last 20 years , with some five million people now suffering from the condition . |
| 2 | Since numbers of children on the streets or living in poor families have increased dramatically over the last decade and the extra resources for the Act 's implementation are likely to be strictly limited , demand for services is certain to outstrip supply . |
| 3 | The trade in wild animals as pets and status symbols has increased dramatically over the last century to the point at which many animals are now very rare and in danger of being wiped out . |
| 4 | Just as the rewards for European golfers have increased dramatically over the last few years with a circuit worth nearly twenty million pounds , so have they for caddies . |
| 5 | Mobility in North Yorkshire is increasing dramatically , has increased dramatically over the last ten years and I think there are sustainability arguments against a level erm of provision at fifty er around that level . |
| 6 | Erm the emphasis really on that has been highlighted in the Department of Transport 's own recent consultation document earlier this year where they looked at er trans-pennine routes right from from Derbyshire up to the er the A sixty six er looking at ways to relieve the pressure on the M sixty two where traffic flows have been in have increased dramatically over the last few years . |
| 7 | Furthermore , evidence from police convictions and research suggests that the use of cannabis , and perhaps amphetamines , though punctuated by temporary troughs , has increased consistently over the last three decades . |
| 8 | Expenditure on education has increased steadily over the last few years even in ‘ real terms ’ after inflation is taken into account , as Figure 8.6 shows . |
| 9 | In addition , the volume of air traffic has increased considerably over the last 16 years although the growth experienced in the late seventies has not been maintained more recently . |