Example sentences of "[noun] have grow by " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to a report from the US Solar Energy Industries Association , sales of solar energy equipment have grown by more than 30 percent over the last two years , the vast majority being bought by developing countries . |
| 2 | This myth can be countered in its own terms : first by pointing out that the impressive economic performance of countries like Indonesia and the Philippines , whose per capita incomes have grown by an average of 3.0% a year in the last few decades , took place alongside rapid population growth ; second by showing that Africa 's ten richest countries have similar population growth rates to the continent 's ten poorest countries . |
| 3 | Profits in the same period have grown by 11% a year , from $1.5 billion to $4.3 billion . |
| 4 | In fact , following cuts in the Seventies , NHS resources have grown by 50 per cent , even allowing for inflation . |
| 5 | While share prices are little changed on their 1987 peak , dividends have grown by 70 p.c . ’ |
| 6 | Their numbers have grown by more than a third since 1979 , while the number of self-employed people has grown to over 12 per cent of the workforce . |
| 7 | Its assets have grown by an average of more than 60% a year , to around $1.5 billion in 1992 . |
| 8 | Industrial production and import investments have grown by 2.1 per cent and 2.7 per cent respectively . |
| 9 | Hadley ( 1985 ) also documents the poor success rates of many development projects in African savannas where , overall , crop and arable production have grown by only 2 per cent , necessitating a massive increase in food imports . |