Example sentences of "have grown [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stoute , who knows the family well , said : ‘ He has grown to just over 15.2 hands , which is a nice size for a racehorse , and I am hopeful that he will get further than a mile . ’ |
| 2 | Their numbers have grown by more than a third since 1979 , while the number of self-employed people has grown to over 12 per cent of the workforce . |
| 3 | Our Wood News Correspondent for ESP , reports that since the acquisition of TSS , they are now doing business internationally : ‘ All our products and services are available worldwide and we now have representatives in Canada , Indonesia , India , Japan , the Middle East and South America , in addition to our US workforce which has grown to over 260 employees . ’ |
| 4 | SINCE ITS inception , CCG 's Provinces Division has grown to over two dozen contracts in just 18 months , reaching from Bournemouth to Folkestone on the south coast up to Birmingham and the South Midlands . |
| 5 | This world famous photo archive , which has grown to around 2.5 million images since Sir Robert Witt gave his collection of some 400,000 photos in 1944 to be freely available to any interested parties , is one of the most extensive in the world for paintings , sculpture and architecture . |
| 6 | At the end of the fifth month the length has grown to around 250 millimetres about half the length of a full-term baby but the weight is still only about a tenth of what it will be at birth . |
| 7 | As a result of these two trends , the importance of house ownership in overall wealth holding has grown to almost 50% and a growing number of individuals are inheriting valuable house property . |
| 8 | The market for raising new finance by this form of risk management has grown to about $4 billion in 1989 . |
| 9 | Since a python 's skin begins to deteriorate in quality once it has grown to about fifteen feet the largest are left alone , which is just as well as each one must be caught at night , alive and by hand , with a lamp to attract them from their lairs , and at least four men to get them into the sack afterwards . |
| 10 | Of course I was in a fever to hear again , but as his regiment was sent back into the line , I did not have further word till April , when he responded to that phrase with the comment : ‘ I think you would consider that this lily has grown into rather a thistle … seriously , though , I 'm not the same little lad you last saw ; I feel so much older because of my life in the last year . ’ |
| 11 | Absolutes aside , it is clear that relative to other advanced industrial countries Britain 's economy has grown for too long less sturdily . |
| 12 | CAMRA 's membership has grown from under 20,000 to 30,000 in less than three years . |
| 13 | Since 1984 , our market capitalisation has grown from under £400 million to approaching £3 billion . |
| 14 | In his time at WWF , the amount the organisation has raised for conservation has grown from under £1 million to £15 million annually . |
| 15 | He has grown from about 1″ long to 6″ and has developed a beautiful long tail . |
| 16 | Logging has intensified in recent years , mainly due to massive Japanese investment in woodchip production , which has grown from virtually nil in 1985 to 1.7 million tonnes in 1989 . |
| 17 | He earns a bonus of 1 per cent of the rise in the company 's value and Direct Line has grown from virtually nothing in 1985 to be worth around £800 million . |
| 18 | From six members , the company has grown in less than four years to a staff of more than 90 , and a base of more than 200 installed systems . |
| 19 | The number of passengers using the service has grown by just over 16pc this year . |
| 20 | In the past two years it has grown by more than 35 per cent , and anyone who put in £3,000 when it was launched , in April 1988 , will have seen their investment swell to £4,267 . |
| 21 | The fund , which provides loans and grants for those receiving social security benefits to buy essential items , has grown by more than 50 per cent since 1991 . |
| 22 | Then the show ended and we had to return to America and I thought that was that — good friends , really talented , I 'd grown to really like David 's music . |
| 23 | There 's this old girl at er the top of the road you know , got them , she planted them half way down her garden , right , when they 'd grown to about six foot high she said we could have the rest of their garden , so we did , that 's how come our garden 's so big cos people give our , give us the garden |
| 24 | Right : A tropical chiggoe flea that has burrowed into the sole of a foot , gorged itself , laid eggs and been squeezed out , having grown from less than one millimetre wide to more than a centimetre . |
| 25 | In February 1974 a mobile library service was inaugurated and at the end of its first ten years the number of books lent should have grown to nearly twenty times as many . |
| 26 | According to managing director Richard Breakey the games market could have grown by as much as 30pc in the last year . |
| 27 | Their numbers seem to have grown from around 5,000 in the early seventeenth century to about 20,000 a century later . |
| 28 | And one of the girls said yeah but you 've grown since then , I says no , they 've shrunk them ! |
| 29 | By previous standards they register a marked improvement and to this extent justify post-war hopes : in the interwar period GDP had grown at approximately 2 per cent p.a . |
| 30 | In 1957 there were just 140 lifers in prison ; thirty years later , in 1987 the number had grown to over 2,200 , of whom about one in five had received their life sentence for an offence other than murder . |