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

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1 In the 1980s local decentralization has been occurring at a slower pace than in the previous decade and in some cases appears to have gone into reverse .
2 General ‘ political economy ’ explanations must be correct in locating such developments within complex shifts in the production process , industrial infrastructure , and labour force requirements occurring at a particular stage of advanced industrialization — though much work needs to be done to define these shifts more precisely .
3 An electric shock US , for instance , is an event occurring at a particular time , with a certain duration and intensity , that impinges on a particular part of the animal , and so on .
4 All of the world 's savannas have been affected by human activity and , as Table 7.2 shows , deforestation is occurring at a rapid rate due to agricultural development and fuelwood collection .
5 It was clear from the work done then that , even after a full year , major changes in unemployment , self-employment , and employment taken up and ended within the group , were still occurring at a high rate .
6 The method of carbon dating is based on the assumption that these two reactions have been occurring at a constant rate for the past 15000 years .
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