Example sentences of "there [verb] been a steady increase " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since 1973 there has been a steady increase in electoral support for the Conservative party which dominated centre-right coalition governments in the early 1980s . |
| 2 | Ciba-Geigy runs company management courses and in recent years there has been a steady increase in the number of women in these courses . |
| 3 | By 1972 , that figure had doubled to over 120,000 offences and since then there has been a steady increase . |
| 4 | There has been a steady increase in illegitimacy in the 1980s accompanied by a rise in unmarried parents ' applications to court for maintenance , custody and access . |
| 5 | And we know that through that period , there has been a steady increase in the number of police officers the county have got , and this county has always up to now , willingly funded those police officers . |
| 6 | There had been a steady increase in the ethnic heterogeneity of most union republics between the wars ; since then , and particularly since the 1960s , the trend had been in the opposite direction . |