Example sentences of "increase [prep] [noun sg] [noun] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | GOVERNMENT plans to slash subsidies for British Rail 's South-east commuter and provincial services threaten to bring vast increases in rail fares in the 1990s . |
| 2 | Placed in the top four universities in terms of financial support from the Universities Funding Council ( UFC ) , Bristol has received funding from the UFC this year to support the second largest increases in student numbers in the country — some 17% . |
| 3 | Fish stocks in the Baltic are in decline as a result of the de-oxygenation and increase of hydrogen sulphide in the water . |
| 4 | He said that police in Moray had begun investigating the increase of ecstasy use in the area at the beginning of 1992 after parents and teachers had reported their concern . |
| 5 | ‘ But we have had the biggest increase in home repossessions in the North-East from 101 in 1990 to 238 in 1991 . |
| 6 | BEDS are being cleared in several London hospitals because of the large increase in flu patients in the capital over the past few days . |
| 7 | One study found a significant increase in childhood leukaemias in the corridors of land underneath the country 's network of power lines . |
| 8 | Between the First World War and the later 1920s , there was also a fourfold increase in breaking-in offences in the outer Home Counties — which almost certainly resulted from the greater mobility afforded to house-breakers by the advent of the motor car . |
| 9 | At the time of the first attack it is possible to measure an increase in antibody levels in the blood , but these seem to remain fairly steady in any further attacks . |
| 10 | The number of births soon began to fall dramatically — by the early 1980s it was only two-thirds of the figure reached twenty years earlier ; car ownership did not increase at the expected rate — due in part to the sharp increase in Petrol prices in the early 1970s ; the demand for higher standards conflicted from the mid-1970s with central government 's belief that local government expenditure needed to be curtailed in line with a monetarist approach to economic policy . |
| 11 | From half an hour after training , to as long as twenty-four hours afterwards , it was possible to detect an increase in protein synthesis in the brain regions containing IMHV — a result which of course squared with the known amnestic effects of the inhibitors of protein synthesis . |
| 12 | Macfarlane and colleagues suggest that the rise in incidence in Scotland in younger men could be due to a 40% increase in alcohol consumption in the United Kingdom as a whole . |
| 13 | All the right ingredients seem to be there : so it 's easy enough to persuade yourself the sharp steering , smooth increase in turbo power in the mid-range , quick-shifting gear change and body-hugging seats imply something of a breakthrough by Detroit . |
| 14 | However , the increase in oil prices in the 1970s gave fresh support to the coal industry , major new pits were initiated in North Yorkshire and Leicestershire and job losses were still moderate when manufacturing fell under the impact of recession in 1980 . |
| 15 | The improvement may well be largely related to an increase in volume leading to an increase in blood volume in the lungs — an effect shown by transthoracic impedance techniques . |
| 16 | According to the Association of Metropolitan Authorities there was a massive 37.5 per cent increase in rent arrears in the six months immediately following the benefit changes in April 1988.37 Other benefit changes may have contributed to this increase in arrears : the change from supplementary benefit to income support ; the insistence that everyone should be required to pay at least 20 per cent of their rates ( community charge ) and all of their water rates ; and the replacement of urgent needs payments by social fund loans . |
| 17 | To ask the Secretary of State for Energy what has been the increase in labour productivity in the coal mining industry since 1983-84 . |
| 18 | The increase in referral rates in the fundholding group ( from 107.3 to 111.4 referrals per 1000 patients a year ) was much smaller than that seen in the non-fundholding ( control ) group ( from 95.0 to 112.0 ) . |
| 19 | These findings show a threefold increase in acid secretion in H pylori positive healthy volunteers that is explained by H pylori induced hypergastrinaemia and a sixfold increase in acid secretion in the duodenal ulcer patients that is explained by the combination of H pylori induced hypergastrinaemia and an exaggerated acid response to stimulation by gastrin . |
| 20 | During the remainder of the century some one-third of the increase in energy consumption in the LDCs is likely to be accounted for by oil which means a reduction in its proportion of consumption from 55% today to 43% by the year 2000 . |
| 21 | These changes were accompanied by a greater and more sustained increase in energy intake in the steroid group . |
| 22 | BEDS are being cleared in several London hospitals because of the large increase in influenza patients in the capital over the past few days . |
| 23 | As table 12.1 shows , there has been an increase in party unity in the last ten years in the house , but not in Senate . |
| 24 | As my right hon. Friend the Chancellor said , there was a massive increase in business investment in the three years up to 1989 . |
| 25 | It blamed the rise in fuel prices on the threefold increase in fuel consumption in the first half of the year . |