Example sentences of "growing number of [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , another option became available to the poor as they joined the growing number of emigrants to the New World . |
| 3 | In recent years , Zambia has received a growing number of refugees from the continuing civil war in Mozambique . |
| 4 | The collapse of repeated initiatives by Secretary of State George Schultz was welcomed by a growing number of Palestinians in the territories . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | The reforms enjoy the support of a growing number of people in the medical profession itself . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |