Example sentences of "grow at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lichenologists have estimated that crustose lichens in Alaska and Lappland grow at a rate of 3–4mm/100 years , which would make lichens there of 480 mm diameter at least 9000 years old . |
| 2 | The vineyards of Bisseuil are set some distance back from the village and grow at a height of about 160 metres on the south-east-facing slopes of Mont Aigu , which forms the eastern side of the Val d'Or in which Avenay is located . |
| 3 | The vines grow at a height of between 100 and 200 metres and produce dependable wines of a style somewhere between the well structured , fruity Hautvillers and Cumières and the classic but cavalier Aÿ . |
| 4 | Babies do not , as doctors have always believed , grow at a steady rate but in stops and starts — even shooting up by half an inch in 24 hours . |
| 5 | The simplest models assume that earnings grow at a constant rate of g per cent per year . |
| 6 | The vines grow at an altitude of between 140 and 240 metres , although those growing between 160 and 220 metres are the most successful . |
| 7 | While the physically gifted and superhumanly green-fingered Daisy Gamble ( Barbra Streisand ) sings ‘ Hurry , It 's Lovely Up Here ’ , the flowers on the roof of her apartment block , mostly tulips grow at an alarming yet beautiful rate , conveying a sense of freedom brimming over with life . |
| 8 | Intra-Europe business , for all the promise of the Single Market , will grow at a moderate 4.3 per cent , analysts say . |
| 9 | One American market research firm reckons that the computer graphics industry will grow at a compound rate of 41–6 per cent until it tops $17 billion in 1987 . |
| 10 | DEC claims its UK workstation business will grow at a compound annual rate of 2% or 3% for the next few years , and ambitiously predicts its will overhaul Sun to become market leader by 1995/96 . |
| 11 | A homogeneous population will eventually grow at a steady rate r , which is given by the Euler-Lotka equation , In an asexual population , or a population of sexually reproducing haploids that vary only at a single locus , the outcome of natural selection depends simply on the long-term growth rates associated with each genotype , in the absence of density- or frequency-dependent interactions , each genotype will eventually grow exponentially at a rate that depends on its own life history , given by equation ( 1 ) . |
| 12 | Unisys quotes Hyannis , Massachusetts-based market research firm the Standish Group , which estimates the market for OLTP on Unix platforms will grow at a compound annual rate of 119% , from $900m in 1991 to $20,800m in 1995 . |
| 13 | You will find that the brood will grow at a fairly constant rate and should be around 6mm in length in about five weeks . |
| 14 | A form of extendible hashing that does not suffer from oscillations and is claimed to outperform most indexing methods , was reported by Lomet He named the method bounded index exponential hashing ; it is not strictly a direct technique , and suffers from the drawback that the file packing density is generally low , but offers many advantages for files which can grow at a rate that can not be accommodated in a static system . |
| 15 | In the 1993 edition of its US Industrial Outlook , the Commerce Department in Washington is predicting that book sales will grow at a faster rate in 1993 than they did in 1992 , says BP Report . |
| 16 | The administration 's forecast that the economy would grow at a rate of 3.3 per cent with interest rates falling by 2 per cent was castigated as unrealistic , a view echoed by most economic commentators . |
| 17 | Roberts , using statistics for 1960 , 1970 and projected for 1980 , shows how in six of the largest Latin American countries , Argentina , Brazil , Chile , Mexico , Peru and Venezuela , the urban population has grown at a faster rate than has the total population ( Roberts 1978 ) . |
| 18 | If the exotic is what you seek , you might try Omar Khayyam from India , made from Ugni Blanc , Pinot Blanc and Chardonnay , grown at a high altitude in the Sahyadri mountains near Bombay , and vinified by a former winemaker of Piper Heidsieck . |
| 19 | Here the vines are mostly grown at a height of between 140 and 180 metres on south-east and south-west-facing slopes although some climb steeply from the outskirts of Hautvillers and rise to a height of around 250 metres . |
| 20 | International factoring has grown at a faster rate than domestic factoring over the past five years but still remains only a small fraction of domestic business . |
| 21 | The real value of the licence fee has grown at a relatively slow pace and has never quite caught up with the rate of inflation . |
| 22 | If the money had been spent on social and industrial problems then the American economy might well have grown at a higher rate than it has , and technological innovation might have been more rapid in areas which directly contribute to trade . |
| 23 | Since World War II karate has , like all the martial arts , grown at a tremendous rate . |
| 24 | Sustained growth sounds unconvincing in the mouth of the Government because , in the past few years , Britain has grown at a rate well below trend growth and below the OECD average , managing a paltry 0.75 per cent . |
| 25 | The first term on the right-hand side is the sum of the dividend income for n periods which has grown at a compound rate of ( ) , the ‘ super-normal ’ growth rate . |
| 26 | Previously their real and money wages had grown at a rate q , the rate of productivity growth . |
| 27 | The selling franchise arrangement has operated quite successfully for the past eight years , and Argent Distributors have grown at a steady pace during this period , as can be seen from the sales turnover figures . |
| 28 | Some of the vines are planted up to 180 metres , but most are grown at an altitude of between 140 and 160 metres on full south-facing slopes . |
| 29 | In 1979 , the World Bank published a glowing report , Romania : Industrialization under Socialist Planning , which claimed , on the basis of official Romanian government figures , that in the quarter century between 1950 and 1975 , the Romanian economy had grown at an average compound annual rate of over 9% . |
| 30 | In the previous four years GNP had grown at an average rate of about 3 per cent per annum which was lower than the preceding years and unemployment had reached a peak of 8.3 per cent in 1970 . |