Example sentences of "at [adv] the rate " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , there is indirect evidence that the orbit of a binary pair , one member of which is the pulsar PSR 1913+16 , is collapsing at exactly the rate expected due to the loss of energy in gravitational radiation . |
| 2 | erm Now , perhaps we come back to what can we do at this end , and I think Friends of the Earth has done an excellent job in bringing it to peoples ' attention that large areas of tropical forest are being destroyed at roughly the rate of 0.7 or 0.8 percent of the forest each year , erm and they , you know I 'm in agreement with them on the fact that forest is disappearing , it 's dangerous in many places , it 's catastrophic in some , for instance , particularly in West Africa , the clearing that 's gone on in the Ivory Coast is pretty disastrous , and erm there are indications that the West African strip of forest along the strip of the West African Coast by removing that you 're going to make not only that area slightly drier , but mainly the northern areas of those countries , and the drier , so it may well affect climate . |
| 3 | Europe , which accounts for one-third of IBM 's revenue , is growing at twice the rate of the US market , but Asia continues to be the fastest-growing region . |
| 4 | Between 1946 and 1985 the volume of world trade grew nine times ; it increased at twice the rate of output and incomes . |
| 5 | The camera signals are stored in separate buffers and the controller reads them at twice the rate at which they were written . |
| 6 | The growth rates of productivity in Japanese manufacturing have consistently outstripped those of its major economic rivals over the past quarter century and output per worker has increased at twice the rate recorded in other OECD states . |
| 7 | Within this total , trade with the developed capitalist countries increased at twice the rate of trade with the other countries of the socialist community . |
| 8 | A Labour Party survey found that in the year up to August 1987 the price of a school meal in primary schools had risen at twice the rate of inflation , and this had resulted in a reduction in the number of children taking school meals . |
| 9 | Let us suppose that NBFIs maintain a stable proportion of bank deposits to total assets and that their assets are growing at twice the rate of nominal income . |
| 10 | It follows that their demand for bank deposits is also growing at twice the rate of growth of nominal income . |
| 11 | Bush 's sequence of 35 consecutive vetoes , all upheld in Congress , ended on Oct. 5 in relation to a bill to re-regulate the cable television industry , where charges had risen at twice the rate of inflation since deregulation in 1984 . |
| 12 | The collapse of Taurus will also give revenue an unexpected bonus as the scrapping of stamp duty on share dealings will be postponed , while Government borrowing looks as if it may not be spiralling out of control at quite the rate first feared . |