Example sentences of "has increase [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The trade in wild animals as pets and status symbols has increased dramatically over the last century to the point at which many animals are now very rare and in danger of being wiped out .
2 Now , our understanding of this relationship has increased dramatically over the past few years and our knowledge of new vessel formation or angiogenesis has also increased .
3 Mobility in North Yorkshire is increasing dramatically , has increased dramatically over the last ten years and I think there are sustainability arguments against a level erm of provision at fifty er around that level .
4 the rate of change in society has increased dramatically during the last two centuries .
5 The reason is that crime has increased dramatically under the Government .
6 Unfortunately , our use of plastics for containers has increased dramatically in the Western World .
7 CUBA : The number of prisoners of conscience held in Cuba has increased dramatically in the past two years .
8 In England and Wales , as elsewhere in Western Europe , that number has increased dramatically in the post-war period .
9 Crime has increased dramatically in the region .
10 The attendance has increased steadily over the years and the conference attracts more and more international participants .
11 Expenditure on education has increased steadily over the last few years even in ‘ real terms ’ after inflation is taken into account , as Figure 8.6 shows .
12 Moreover the pace of technological change has increased steadily during the latter half of the twentieth century so that the farm worker in turn has had to become more adaptable to successive new innovations .
13 The number of designated clean air zones has increased steadily during the last 25 years , and Table 15–1 shows the dramatic reduction in smoke pollution in the UK .
14 The importance of sales promotions has increased steadily since the 1960s , as has the sophistication of methods used .
15 The number of police officers has increased enormously during the past 10 years .
16 The scale and pace of these losses appears to be unprecedented ; it has increased markedly in the last decade .
17 The number of applications based on this ground has increased alarmingly over the past few years .
18 The number of applications based on this ground has increased alarmingly over the past few years .
19 the number and proportion of women in paid employment in the United Kingdom has increased substantially since the Second World War , and
20 We attempt to assist , however , and the total number of people who have been helped through our sheltered employment programme has increased substantially during the past 10 years .
21 Interviews with the head , senior staff , teacher-librarians and members of the library committee disclose a large measure of agreement that the use made of the library by many of the departments and courses has increased substantially in the period covered by the project .
22 However the quantity of remainders has increased greatly in the last decade , and titles are also being remaindered increasingly quickly to save on overheads ( even to the extent of remainder prices being agreed with dealers before publication ) .
23 The level of owner occupation in Britain has increased rapidly during the last 30 years to the point where nearly two out of every three households either own or are buying their own home .
24 Age at first marriage has increased rapidly in the last two decades .
25 Furthermore , evidence from police convictions and research suggests that the use of cannabis , and perhaps amphetamines , though punctuated by temporary troughs , has increased consistently over the last three decades .
26 ‘ It has not gone unnoticed , ’ said Dr Boyson in 1978 , ‘ that crime has increased parallel with the number of social workers . ’
27 Emigration , perhaps the best gauge of public unease , has increased sharply since the 4 June massacre , an event that shocked millions of ordinary Hong Kong residents usually uninterested in politics .
28 The number of dead dolphins washed ashore in Britain and France has increased sharply in the past five years , according to a study commissioned by Greenpeace .
29 The volume of economic transnational practices has increased phenomenally since the 1950s , as evidenced by the tremendous growth of foreign trade , l and this means that even some quite poor people in some poor countries can now distinguish many consumer goods in terms of their origins and the status-conferring advantages that some origins have over others .
30 It is difficult to see how unrepresented claimants who fare so badly in tribunals of first instance could expect to fare better at the appellate level ; indeed representation has increased considerably over the past few years .
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