Example sentences of "is [verb] at [art] rate of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most , however , had earned remission , which is given at a rate of five days per month , so long as the prisoner works to a satisfactory standard . |
| 2 | Even if the Sun is shrinking at a rate of merely 0–01 per cent per century it would totally disappear in a million years ; and it would have been twice its present size a million years ago . |
| 3 | Today it is drawn at the rate of 10 t pa . |
| 4 | Similarly , broad money is growing at a rate of just 6.1 per cent against 10.9 per cent a year ago . |
| 5 | Diagnostic radiology is growing at a rate of between 5 and 15 per cent per year in many technically developed countries which , together with the rapid growth rate expected in developing countries , will lead to substantial increases in the global dose commitment in the future . |
| 6 | It is growing at a rate of around a billion every 12 years . |
| 7 | British and German inflation rates have moved together , but the German economy is growing at a rate of 3.5 per cent. , while the British economy is in recession and shrinking by 2.5 per cent . |
| 8 | Currently ( 1993 ) there are some twenty million users worldwide of the most commonly used electronic network , Internet , a figure that is growing at a rate of ten percent per month . |
| 9 | The latest figures show that steady growth continued over the last three months and that as a whole , the economy is growing at a rate of two and a half percent a year . |
| 10 | The city is growing at the rate of 6,000 people a month , whilst 90% of the state 's water supplies are currently used by just 6,000 farmers . |
| 11 | World population is growing at the rate of 100 million per year , and will rise from 5.4 billion in 1991 to 10 billion in 2050 . |
| 12 | The population is declining at the rate of 7 per cent a year . |
| 13 | But this market is expanding at a rate of at least five percent and predictions and calculations show that this is far in e in excess of this base rate . |
| 14 | All this is perhaps inevitable in a subject which is expanding at the rate of around 1000 research publications a year . |
| 15 | The church newspaper , Sunday Morning , is printed at a rate of 50,000 copies every two weeks . |
| 16 | Anthracite is imported at a rate of 1m tonnes per annum . |
| 17 | World population is increasing at a rate of between 1.5 and 2.0 per cent per annum ( section 9.3.3 ) and most of the projected growth that will occur by the year 2000 will be in the developing world , mirroring a well-established trend . |
| 18 | THE methane content of the atmosphere is increasing at a rate of 1.7 per cent a year . |
| 19 | Although it is well established from modern observations that the methane content of the atmosphere is increasing at a rate of 1.7 per cent per year , about 600 billion kg , accurate measurements go back only 15 years . |
| 20 | At a time when crime has doubled in this country and is increasing at a rate of 28 per cent . |
| 21 | Prescribing by general practitioners is increasing at the rate of 5 per cent per year , and is one of the fastest-growing sectors of the budget of the Department of Health and Social Security . |
| 22 | Population is increasing at the rate of 91 million people each year . |
| 23 | The Californian population of sea lions is increasing at the rate of about 5 per cent a year . |
| 24 | The margin of the Quelccaya Ice Cap in the Peruvian Andes is melting at the rate of 45 feet a year , compared to around 15 feet per year in the period 1963-78 . |
| 25 | A man is paid at the rate of £1.50 per hour for normal working . |
| 26 | The SMM radiometer suggests the Sun 's radiation is decreasing at a rate of 0.06 per cent per year . |