Example sentences of "[art] growing number of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I notice , for instance , the growing number of families in my own area who are involved in Eastern mysticism and the soft fringes of the occult .
2 However , the growing number of students with instrumental proficiency in recent years has meant an increasing concentration on orchestral work .
3 Meanwhile , another option became available to the poor as they joined the growing number of emigrants to the New World .
4 There was considerable debate in the mid-1980s of the mounting ‘ burden ’ on the working population likely to result from the growing number of pensioners in the second and third decades of the next century .
5 If , however , the growing number of jobs within the service industries is viewed as a consequence of rising productivity levels within manufacturing , then the labour released should have been reabsorbed by the service sector .
6 I 'm partial to a nice pun , and BT 's image began to soar in direct ratio to the growing number of commercials on the air .
7 Issued in part as a response to the growing number of appeals over controversial retail , industrial and other developments in sensitive areas .
8 This 30-minute insight squeezes out all the grisly facts and figures and reveals the growing number of attacks on British tourists around the world .
9 This report , the standard books , the growing number of translations of the many books of the Scriptures , and discussions with scholars in Rangoon University or simple yet thoughtful Buddhists in the villages , aroused in me a reverent admiration for the Buddha , a deep interest in his teaching , and a nagging need to build some bridge in my own mind between the two religions .
10 Both are hoping to develop the reading habit , to encourage the child to explore the many pleasures of reading ( and of the growing number of items in audio-visual format ) , and to gain practice in this essential skill as well as in discrimination .
11 In view of the number of working and pleasure horses in the kingdom , when the phrase ‘ horsepower ’ meant literally just that , and the concentration of dairy cows around and even within the metropolis , and also the growing number of pets in middle-class households , it is strange that the demands of so many animal owners , some wealthy or even extremely rich , had not led to the development of a proper profession competent to deal with animal diseases , just as the professions of physician , surgeon and apothecary had burgeoned to meet public demand at the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th centuries .
12 Self-reported illness , sickness absence rates and a growing number of studies on specific aspects of ill-health all supported the main conclusion : the greatest burden of ill-health and disability was borne by the worst off .
13 In recent years , Zambia has received a growing number of refugees from the continuing civil war in Mozambique .
14 This is a useful addition to a growing number of texts on social policy , social services , social work and Europe .
15 What was more , there had been a growing number of mice in her house of late and she put it down to the age of the animal .
16 Her actions were typical of a growing number of members of the security forces and prison service who take advantage of the availability of firearms to commit suicide .
17 Faced with a growing number of desertions from within Tory ranks over the peace negotiations of 1711 – 13 , Oxford needed to court the support of the Scottish Jacobite peers and Jacobite MPs to maintain his majority in Parliament .
18 Four albums later and with a growing number of awards to her daughter 's credit , mother Safiqua is reconciled to Najma 's career .
19 There was evidence of a steady trend towards trade liberalization , brought on partly by the recognition of political changes in eastern Europe [ see p. 37552 ] — most notably the prospect of German unification — and partly by reports of a growing number of violations of COCOM rules [ see p. 37896 ] .
20 First , there has been a growing number of prosecutions in recent years for injuries resulting from organized matches of Association and Rugby football .
21 The collapse of repeated initiatives by Secretary of State George Schultz was welcomed by a growing number of Palestinians in the territories .
22 A growing number of disputes over building contracts has inevitably led to more cases coming before the courts or arbitrators .
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