Example sentences of "there [vb past] been a marked [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very significantly , in comparing his study with another carried out 19 years before , Gorer found there had been a marked increase in this expressed appreciation of the sexual factor in marriage — even more marked in women than in men . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , it was reported on April 11 that the World Health Organization ( WHO ) had launched an appeal for US$4,100,000 to finance a three-month emergency health plan amidst reports that there had been a marked increase in cases of lung and chest diseases resulting from oil fire pollution [ p. 38119 ] . |
| 3 | In fact , even in this area where the textile trade was important , such a high level of unemployment would have been surprising , for cloth exports in the mid 1520s were substantially higher than earlier in the decade , when there had been a marked recession . |
| 4 | Some felt the present arrangements to be satisfactory , believing that ‘ there had been a marked change for the better in the CNAA system over the years and felt that subject boards fulfilled a useful role ’ . |
| 5 | In Latin America and the Caribbean there had been a marked shift from homosexual to heterosexual transmission . |