Example sentences of "increased over the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Feedback on how effective you are and how your effectiveness has increased over the two days .
2 Erm looking at the employ sorry looking at the output side er the question looking at trends and output over the last four months shows that in all the four regions manufacturers say that output has increased over the preceding four months .
3 As Raynor ( 1969 , Chapter 2 ) argues , the ‘ middle class ’ was never homogeneous ( in particular it has never been equivalent to Marx 's ‘ bourgeoisie ’ ) , but nonetheless its degree of heterogeneity has been greatly increased over the post-war years , and the shift in the distribution of social labour analysed above has accelerated this process .
4 These records show that strandings , especially of pilot whales , have increased over the past 25 years .
5 In London , salaries have increased over the past six months , which to some degree reflects the calibre of the person sought within each grading .
6 Not surprisingly , 68% of owner-directors said that their financial or material rewards had not increased over the past 12 months ; 65% now work over 50 hours a week , 38% have considered disposal over the past year , and over half have injected extra funds .
7 US involvement in Uk defence technology has steadily increased over the past thirty years as the UK has sought to maintain its lead within increasing economic constraints .
8 The head of Nicaraguan Army intelligence , Maj. Ricardo Wheelock , replied on Sept. 13 that military attacks from Honduran territory had increased over the past two weeks .
9 Fuel and Energy Miniser Yury Shafranik said that the waste of energy resources had increased over the past two years and that energy use had remained stable , despite falling production .
10 If anything , the Windsor Park attendance figures have increased over the past year .
11 The result was that the proportion of the population over the age at which state pensions can now be drawn ( 65 years for men and 60 for women ) , increased over the eighty-year period from about one in twenty ( 5 per cent ) to over one in six ( about 18 per cent ) .
12 However , her feelings of hopelessness increased over the next 3 weeks and late one night , after she had been drinking alone , she took an overdose of the tranquillizer mixed with paracetamol and then went to bed .
13 European Commission President , Jacques Delors , has announced that the funds are to be increased over the next five years , although the regulations governing their use are to be reformed .
14 Extra-judicial killings by the security forces increased over the same period .
15 This is not the result of patients being ‘ switched ’ into a different mental health category since the incidence of other types of illness has not increased over the same period .
16 By contrast , palaeontology had increased over the same periods , from 14 to 25 , not quite doubling .
17 A study of Holocene sediment off the north-eastern coast of England has shown that heavy-metal pollution between 15 and 20 kilometres offshore has increased over the last 500 years .
18 The optimistic reading is that we have been successful , in that the number of men convicted of rape has increased over the last decade by 39 per cent in the case of rape , 2 per cent in the case of sexual assault , and 55 per cent in the case of incest .
19 Unlike most manufactured goods , however , the real price of most services has increased over the last few decades .
20 When you know what we should be saying to John Major and employers is that it is n't any surprise that er disablement er has increased over the last thirteen , fourteen years .
21 For wheat , er total world , world trade has increased over the last thirty years , from er , it 's there somewhere , er , from about sixty , from forty one thousand three hundred and seventy seven thousand metric tonnes to er to about eighty four thousand four hundred and four thousand metric tonnes
22 " The level of abstraction and consumption has increased over the last century by hundreds of times , and perhaps in some cases by thousands .
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