Example sentences of "growing at a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In natural conditions , it grows like Nymphaea stellata , deep-rooted , growing at a depth of up to 3 feet ( 80cms ) , putting forth fleshy , pale green , large , roundish leaves .
2 The best vines are those closest to the village growing at a height of between 140 and 200 metres .
3 At the same time concern was growing at a tripling in the cost of the high speed rail link following objections from people in Kent and Surrey .
4 Similarly , broad money is growing at a rate of just 6.1 per cent against 10.9 per cent a year ago .
5 Growing at a rate of about ten metres a day , by May 1903 the spine was no less than 310 metres high , rearing up above St Pierre like a memorial obelisk , a tribute to the thousands that had died below .
6 iXOS , founded in 1988 by Hans Strach Zimmerman , formerly with Siemens AG , and Eberhard Faerber , founder of Peripherie Computer Systeme GmbH , is a privately-held company that has been growing at a rate of 50% per year , and employs 110 staff .
7 Dataquest Corp says the end-user market in Japan for Unix-based relational databases will be worth $705.6m in 1996 , growing at a rate of 43% a year through that year .
8 Dataquest Corp says the end-user market in Japan for Unix-based relational databases will be worth $705.6m in 1996 , growing at a rate of 43% a year through that year .
9 iXOS , founded in 1988 by Hans Strach Zimmerman ( ex Siemens ) and Eberhard Faerber ( founder of PCS Computer Systems ) , is a privately-owned company that has been growing at a rate of 50% per year , employs 110 staff .
10 Within a few decades , forests and animals had returned to the shattered islands which were all that remained of Krakatoa 's outer rim ; and from the waters between them emerged an ominous smoking mound , sometimes growing at a rate of more than three feet a month .
11 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 .
12 It is growing at a rate of around a billion every 12 years .
13 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 .
14 Despite the nationwide economic recession , at the time of the election Queensland 's tourism-driven economy was growing at a rate second only to that of mineral-rich Western Australia , with economic growth for the current fiscal year estimated at 4 per cent compared with 3 per cent for Australia as a whole .
15 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 .
16 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 .
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