Example sentences of "growth [noun] [prep] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 It is important to understand variations in the growth patterns of plants of the same species .
2 Major growth areas of TBDF in the 1970S included international airline systems ( for seat reservations and related information ) , and international credit card networks .
3 Corporate finance specialists see insurance as one of the few growth areas in Europe in the short and medium term .
4 Galashiels ( 12 000 people ) is becoming a growth point for workers in the Tweed Valley .
5 The trends observed by analysis of Table 3 suggest that there has been a steady growth in research on Scottish geology , but that there have been differences in growth rates between universities over the time interval .
6 The annual average percentage growth rates of employment in the ACCs from 1955 to 1968 were ( OECD , 1970 ) :
7 Bearing in mind that growth rate is related to size in a non-linear manner , compare growth rates of whelks of the same initial size marked as feeding on different prey .
8 This fall is largely because of the high growth rates of GDP in the mid-to late 1980s .
9 Apple Computer France SA has cut retail prices of all its products by up to 33% , and says the impact 3 , should show up quickly because of the fiercely competitive nature of the computer industry : ‘ we aim to increase the number of our users and conquer new markets , ’ it said , adding that it intends to establish a new pricing policy for resellers ; ‘ the demand for our products is still strong , with a worldwide volume growth rate of 18% in the second half of our fiscal 1993 , compared to the same period in fiscal 92 , ’ said Giancarlo Zanni , managing director of Apple France .
10 Since the long-run real growth rate in GDP in the UK is between 2.5 and 3 per cent , and if we additionally assume that the long-run inflation rate is 5 per cent , then a realistic estimate of the long-run nominal growth rate in earnings is around 8 per cent per annum .
11 The important point is that increased use of advanced production technology represents a growth area for supply of the equipment involved .
12 Data processing has been a key employment growth area in Britain over the past decade .
13 As Green points out , in sub-Saharan Africa , technical assistance seems to have been the only real growth area in aid over the past half decade .
14 The number one growth area in sociology at the beginning of this closing decade of the twentieth century — in the USA , in Britain , in Germany , and surely elsewhere too — is the sociology of culture .
15 A major growth area in sociology in the 1970s and 1980s has been the sociology of development , where the fundamental question concerns the origins and continuation of the poverty of Third World countries .
16 Growth results in movement of the graticule relative to a fixed grid .
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