Example sentences of "at the present rate [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the present rate of referral , numbers are more than set to double during the year . |
| 2 | * At the present rate of destruction many countries whose only real asset is the forest may have none at all by the year 2,000 . |
| 3 | If she was well enough to formulate a view on the question - and at the present rate of progress it looked as if she might be — Elinor would take a dim view of the poisoning of Tibbles . |
| 4 | How many extra people are there in Britain each year , at the present rate of natural increase ? 56 000 000 × 3 ÷ 1000 = … ? |
| 5 | Peter Daley of Waste Management International has pointed out in a lecture to Britain 's Royal Academy of Engineering that landfills , at the present rate of waste generation in Europe , use about two square metres of land per person per century . |
| 6 | Work on the index began in July 1983 , and at the present rate of progress the initial data preparation phase should be finished by January 1988 . |
| 7 | On the subject of Curtis Cup selection , she says : ‘ Oh , that 's a long way off , ’ though at the present rate of progress , it may not be as distant a prospect as she thinks . |