Example sentences of "the 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 . |