Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [v-ing] at [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The car is travelling at about 100 mph on the straights and braking hard before corners ; but it is stable enough for me to make notes and so quiet in the leather and teak-lined cabin that we can easily hear each other through out helmets . |
| 2 | The iceberg is moving at about five miles a day , said Principal Met Officer Ken Ingermalls . |
| 3 | A reflection of this is the way they are all trying to develop their lager interests in a market where lager is growing at nearly 10 per cent per annum and is likely to command over 40 per cent of all sales this year . |
| 4 | when the child is wetting at least three times a week |
| 5 | Although some farmers are adopting more intensive systems of production this is not yet at a fast enough rate to generate the large increases in marketed output necessary to feed the towns , where the population is growing at over 6 per cent per year . |
| 6 | The rural population is growing at over 2 per cent per year and densities are increasing . |
| 7 | The Royal Navy is evaluating at least four types of missile for this role . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Body Count are playing at least five shows with the rock bands . |
| 11 | Families struggling on low incomes can get help from the scheme provided at least one adult is working at least 24 hours a week . |
| 12 | Families struggling on low incomes can get help from the scheme provided at least one adult is working at least 24 hours a week . |
| 13 | Families struggling on low incomes can get help from the scheme provided at least one adult is working at least 24 hours a week . |
| 14 | The first point to make is that Joint Planning is happening at very different rates and in very different ways across Scotland . |
| 15 | According to the Middle East Times of Sept. 24-30 , the country 's annual inflation rate was running at around 700 per cent . |
| 16 | Although the economy was growing at around 2 per cent per annum , and although a fall in the value of the krone had brought the country 's trade balance back into surplus , its industries continued to suffer a severe crisis of confidence . |
| 17 | An annual report published by HM Inspectorate of Pollution in 1987–88 stated that leakage of methane gas was occurring at around 600 landfill sites situated near buildings in Britain and Wales . |
| 18 | ‘ In a town where unemployment is running at about 20 per cent , the creation of jobs is important in itself , ’ he said . |
| 19 | There are currently fifty thousand undecided cases and the backlog is growing at over three thousand cases a month . |
| 20 | At the end of the record , when the stylus is approaching the label , the groove is travelling at about twenty inches per second , yet the sound quality is very similar . |
| 21 | Not because of their undoubted erudition , acuity and ( not least ) charm have pre-empted everything we , their successors , might have to say on the matter ( culture is evolving at too vertiginous a speed for that to happen ) , but because we are n't alone in having read Barthes and Eco and assimilated their methodology . |
| 22 | As the cost of hardware continues to drop ( productivity is increasing at about 30 per cent per year in that industry ) individualised computer programming and time-sharing would become expensive relics , he told the conference . |
| 23 | In fact , of course , even someone who is stationary on the earth is moving at about 18.6 miles ( 30 kilometers ) a second around the sun . |