51.  Noteworthy also during this period was the growing number of inter-republic contacts, treaties and agreements bypassing central control.

52.  Too many congressmen in both parties were reluctant to aid Soviet retraining at a time when growing numbers of US citizens were unemployed.

53.  There are a growing number of private investors known as Business angels, and small businesses.

54.  There is, therefore, little tradition yet of using even the growing numbers of full text CD-ROM databases let alone those embodying the first elements of multimedia.

55.  It is because Mr Gorbachev keeps his hands off Eastern Europe that a growing number of people there see him as Mikhail the Liberator.

56.  Meanwhile, another option became available to the poor as they joined the growing number of emigrants to the New World.

57.  Gough was careful to distinguish between the twelve farms, the forty-eight tenements and the growing number of cottages.

58.  Whether it can also address the issues of caring for growing numbers of elderly people is another matter.

59.  The view that growing numbers of elderly people inevitably mean a growing and costly burden of disability in future has also been challenged.

60.  Such borrowers now include a growing number of large British companies.