Example sentences of "growing number of [noun] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The self-abnegation of Friends , emptying themselves the better to be filled by the Light Within , did not then necessarily exclude the pursuit of righteousness in the world ; equally , in the outlook of growing numbers of Quakers in the early nineteenth century , this stance could merge with a stress on the experience of grace which aligned them with evangelicals . |
| 2 | The condition is affecting growing numbers of children in the country , with one in seven primary schoolchildren suffering from it . |
| 3 | The collapse of repeated initiatives by Secretary of State George Schultz was welcomed by a growing number of Palestinians in the territories . |
| 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 | The reforms enjoy the support of a growing number of people in the medical profession itself . |
| 6 | IN EARLY 1942 the invasion was still two years distant and the European Allied air offensive was being mounted from the numerous and growing number of airfields in the UK . |