Example sentences of "increased [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the two countries where it was more important , the United States and United Kingdom , the proportion of transfers going to social aid hardly increased during the 1960s . |
| 2 | Thus , for instance , the productivity of every hour of work — that is , the volume of goods and services that can be produced in one hour — has immeasurably increased during the present century . |
| 3 | Despite these efforts , erosion losses remain excessive and may have increased during the 1970s [ and this trend ] may continue indefinitely into the future . ’ |
| 4 | As measured by examination performance , educational achievement in secondary schools in the United Kingdom has increased during the 1970s and 1980s ( especially in the 1970s ) . |
| 5 | ( Although it was as long ago as 1884 that Marx wrote of the shift from worker as producer to worker as consumer , the degree of expendability of goods and their constant replacement by better and newer models has markedly increased during the latter half of this century . ) |
| 6 | References to them in contemporary documents increased during the second half of the thirteenth century . |
| 7 | The company says that as well as launching an Am486 using Intel microcode , it still plans to go ahead with its clean version , which is due to be available in June , and production will be increased during the second half . |
| 8 | As we have already seen , recruitment of girl apprentices increased during the 1890s and especially the 1900s . |
| 9 | Ethridge writes that although expenditure on education increased during the 1980s , ‘ the increase in enrolment has been such that the average per-pupil expenditure actually decreased ’ . |
| 10 | Successive governments have stressed that imprisonment should be used only as a last resort yet , as we have seen , its use increased during the 1980s . |
| 11 | Recent evidence does indeed suggest that total factor productivity has increased during the 1980s . |
| 12 | The RSA scheme expenditure increased during the 1980s from £86 million in 1980-81 to £177 million in 1989-90 . |
| 13 | Educational achievement as measured by participation in higher education has also increased during the past decade , as Figure 11.3 shows . |
| 14 | The main problem of studying agricultural production is the lack of clear evidence on yields in relation to seed , although at Battle in Sussex , where this can be documented , wheat and barley yields seem to have declined and those of oats increased during the later Middle Ages . |
| 15 | The social security system was , at first , principally intended to support pensioners and , although the numbers have increased during the last forty years , the main increases in those claiming supplementary benefit ( now renamed income support , have been the unemployed and single parents ( see Figure 5.1 ) . |
| 16 | The percentage of young people staying on in full-time education after the legal minimum leaving age has increased during the last decade , as Figure 12.1 shows . |
| 17 | Among the children of a Woolwich school evacuated to somewhere in Kent the average weight of the boys has increased during the last month by 2½ lb. and of girls by 3½ lb . |
| 18 | Borrowings increased during the last year to £932m from £760m but the company is in the process of disposing of businesses , including Sola glass , in an effort to cut debt . |
| 19 | It is perhaps significant to record that the capacity of Naseby was increased during the 1930's by raising the crest of the outlet weir by 2 feet . |
| 20 | Although many politicians have not been prepared to accept the thorough-going case for pricing advanced above , many have , under the practical pressure of public spending constraints , been prepared to accept charging as a supplementary way of raising revenue , or to see charges increased as the only way of preserving a service . |
| 21 | Output is now being increased as the domestic cattle population increases , and as tropical forest is felled to make way for grassland — which is ideal territory for termites . |
| 22 | Fears of communism had deep roots in the past ( p.6 ) and they had increased as the Cold War developed after 1945 . |
| 23 | Their responsibilities increased as the old college laboratories began to close . |
| 24 | Subsequent learning about the pre-exposed stimulus will then be impossible until a discrepancy between the values of λ and V is established ( as will happen when the US is introduced at the start of the conditioning phase of a latent inhibition experiment ) so that the value of α will be increased for the next trial . |
| 25 | If the system has a high inertia , for example , the maximum stepping rate can not be attained instantaneously ; the stepping rate must be gradually increased towards the maximum value so that the motor has sufficient time to accelerate the load inertia . |
| 26 | Nor was the sound level on the main roads increased despite the greater concentration of traffic there ; indeed the smoother driving on these roads may have reduced the sound level of some of them , though this has yet to be verified . |
| 27 | However , I advise the hon. Gentleman that crime has increased throughout the western world during the past half century . |
| 28 | This latter has increased throughout the twentieth century ; it is not an end-of-century phenomenon . |
| 29 | Take-home pay hardly increased under the Labour Government of 1974-79 . |
| 30 | Contracting out by local authorities has increased under the Conservative government — partly voluntarily and partly as a response to changes in the law requiring them to do so for certain activities . |