Example sentences of "be running at [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the past few years , the death count has been running at roughly 10 a day , with blood feuds and general gangsterism adding to the mayhem . |
| 2 | For the past few years , the death count has been running at roughly 10 a day , with blood feuds and general gangsterism adding to the mayhem . |
| 3 | Since that flying start , sales have been running at about $800 a day — unprecedented in Azerbaijan . |
| 4 | In the War , distribution expenditure had been running at only a fifth of the prewar level , and the plans prepared by the undertakings for the Electricity Commissioners show they expected to continue to spend more than half of all their capital on developing distribution , as they had in the 1930s . |
| 5 | It had been running at more than 90 per cent capacity through the peak season , and weathered the lean winter months to show a profit of more than £250,000 . |
| 6 | The pitch of each blade should be adjusted until both tips are running at exactly the same height , or tracking in exactly the same path . |
| 7 | They said 1990 would be fairly gloomy , with little increase in the number of houses being sold ( currently sales are running at about a third of the level of the last few years ) and no movement in prices throughout the UK . |
| 8 | James Cannavino , IBM Corp senior vice-president and Personal Systems supremo says the company is getting 6,000 to 7,000 calls a day on its OS/2 number requesting details of OS/2 2.1 , which is due to ship on June 14 : he claims that current sales of OS/2 are running at around 200,000 copies a month . |
| 9 | James Cannavino , IBM Corp senior vice-president and Personal Systems supremo says the company is getting 6,000 to 7,000 calls a day on its OS/2 number requesting details of OS/2 2.1 , which is due to ship on June 14 : he claims that current sales of OS/2 are running at around 200,000 copies a month . |
| 10 | And when wages and inflation are running at less than two per cent , you do n't go out and increase your spending by four or five per cent . |
| 11 | By mid-1986 some 10 or 12 rigs should be operating in the South China Sea and by then expenditure on Chinese offshore oil could be running at around $1 billion per year . |
| 12 | The problem is compounded by increased water consumption — up by 70 per cent per head compared to 30 years ago — and leakage in the supply system , which is estimated to be running at around 20 per cent . |
| 13 | The guide found pub price rises this year were running at just over 6% , down from 16% last year . |
| 14 | Caustic losses to drain — and hence to the river Tees with environmental consequences — were running at over £300,000 a year . |
| 15 | The acknowledged annual implementation costs referred to earlier were running at almost double the £220m estimated for setting up the internal market . |
| 16 | In many cases , this form of guaranteed sales is running at barely half that of 1989 , when the boom was such that the government was forced to drop limits on subscriptions , which it claimed were forced upon it by lack of newsprint . |
| 17 | According to the estate this is running at around £30,000 per annum and in addition to this , a survey that would take into account climbing as well as safety interests would cost a further £10,500 . |
| 18 | ‘ In a town where unemployment is running at about 20 per cent , the creation of jobs is important in itself , ’ he said . |
| 19 | ‘ To put our industry in context , the balance of payments deficit is running at about £13 billion . |
| 20 | The annual rate of inflation is running at almost 13% . |
| 21 | But even Ogonyok , considered the most chic and sought-after of the progressive press , is running at only 50 per cent of 1989 levels . |
| 22 | I think you have to look after people both at work and when they retire and we inflation-proofed our pension scheme during the whole of that pretty dreadful time when inflation was running at over twenty per cent . |
| 23 | The income from that sale , plus a little rent for pastures rented out to other farmers , produced a pitiful income which , when the first documentary presented Hannah to an amazed public in 1973 , was running at about £5.50p a week . |
| 24 | For example , when price inflation was running at about 12 per cent last summer , buying on HP would have meant monthly payments about 10 per cent higher than those needed to save up and buy the same thing later . |
| 25 | New investment per employed worker in US manufacturing in 1955 was running at about 1.6 times the European level , and nearly five times that of Japan ; by 1970 US manufacturing was investing about the same per worker as European industry and one-third less than Japanese . |
| 26 | Our claim is for 7% salary increase for the 12 months from 1st March but the Banks pointed out that inflation was running at only 1.7% . |
| 27 | By 1953 , Defence expenditure had almost doubled and was running at around 10 per cent of GDP . |
| 28 | According to the Middle East Times of Sept. 24-30 , the country 's annual inflation rate was running at around 700 per cent . |
| 29 | While making primary products more competitive , the devaluation of the kina inevitably resulted in higher inflation which , by the end of 1990 , was running at around 7 per cent per annum . |