Example sentences of "of [noun pl] have [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You Queenie Warley mentioned earlier that the number of personnel has gone up by what , a hundred per cent ? |
| 2 | An endless stream of proposals had poured in for the £20 million a year it had to dispense . |
| 3 | A hundred years of weather had stained her haunches a blackish green and generations of birds had dropped whitely on her domed head . |
| 4 | A number of institutions had cut back on travel in order to balance their budgets . |
| 5 | It goes without saying that both sets of institutions have benefited enormously from this symbiosis : the former from its continued popularity and support and the latter from a continuous stream of royal copy which appears to ensure increased sales . |
| 6 | However , its use in a wide variety of disciplines has grown dramatically in recent decades , to the point where it seems not only to be facilitating what was done before , but to be creating new possibilities . |
| 7 | The name of Lads has survived down through the years from the 15th century . |
| 8 | However , as the use of computers has spread rapidly to large sectors of work and business , there has been a growing trend to encourage the use of computers in schools across the curriculum . |
| 9 | The use of CDs has grown rapidly in recent years . |
| 10 | The number and proportion of remarriages have risen sharply in the last two decades . |
| 11 | According to Miles Barber of Barbers Estate Agents ( 071–381 0112 ) , the level of enquiries about French property remains relatively high , although the number of transactions has fallen sharply since the peak of 1989 . |
| 12 | Members heard how the number of offences has gone up by seventeen percent in the past year although the actual rate of increase does seem to be slowing up . |
| 13 | Four or five sets of headlights had blazed rudely into the neck of the lane , then turned in disappointment away . |
| 14 | A school of masseurs had set up at number 17 and a rival dance director called Sherman Fisher was working from number 18 . |
| 15 | By 1905 the number of volumes had risen again to almost 300 . |
| 16 | This is partly due to the relative costs of production and the public 's growing recognition that other countries can make good rugs ; but perhaps the main reason is simply that the output of workshops has increased dramatically in recent years . |
| 17 | Thursday afternoon CPC bookstall Julian Critchley MP The Palace Of Varieties has shot straight into the best-seller list . |
| 18 | Fortunately for this particular hippy , she picked a merchant with a well-earned reputation for consistently high quality , because since the early Seventies a bewildering number of organisations have sprung up with the intention of guaranteeing a wine 's organic credentials . |
| 19 | Three fish docks were built and now it is Britain 's leading fishing port , though the number of boats has declined rapidly in recent years . |
| 20 | The number of christenings has fallen dramatically in recent years ; parents would rather let the child decide about religion for himself , and many vicars are unwilling to conduct christenings for people who are not regular churchgoers . |
| 21 | The fact that we have had a nuclear deterrent for a number of years has added materially to our security and I believe that we should continue to sustain that deterrent . |
| 22 | Given that suspended particulates have been the subject of pollution control policies dating back to the nineteenth century , it is not surprising that total emissions and average urban concentrations of particulates have decreased markedly during the past few decades . |
| 23 | A couple of airmen had come out of the trenches to see what the shooting was about . |
| 24 | H. For centuries , groups of farmers have lived together in villages and worked the land around each village to a distance of about 1.5–2.0 km . |
| 25 | In a twelve hour period the number of lorries has increased by over two hundred — and it 's similar with commercial vans . |
| 26 | A similar state of affairs had existed only at the very dawn of coinage when , in a number of areas including Asia Minor or Athens , a variety of personal designs had appeared , perhaps implying that for a short time after its inception coinage was sometimes produced on the authority of prominent individuals rather than of the state . |
| 27 | Your otherwise excellent cover version album was sadly marred by a long speech detailing how annoying it is that the price of eggs has gone up in Narodny-Karabakh . |
| 28 | One group of troopers had tangled together in their panic , still in the executive transporter 's path . |
| 29 | At the capitalization party a number of well-wishers had wandered in from the various Labour movement campaigns and organizations which shared the Caxton House office block with NoS . |
| 30 | Under the present director , Geoffrey Morgan , a soft-spoken Welshman whose main outside interest is silkworms , the list of names has moved away from the Reform Club and further out into Middle England , although it is still a very long way short of representing a cross-section of the population . |