Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] at an [adj] rate " in BNC.
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| 1 | By searching for flashes repeating at exactly the same rate as the radio pulses , they were able to investigate much fainter pulsations than if they had been looking for pulses occurring at an unknown rate . |
| 2 | The performance of computers improves at an astounding rate , perhaps unlike any other machine in the world . |
| 3 | Migration continued at an undiminished rate through the seventies . |
| 4 | Between April and June 1971 speculation against the dollar ran at an annual rate of $14 billion . |
| 5 | Since the universe would already be expanding just as in the hot big bang model , the repulsive effective of this cosmological constant would therefore have made the universe expand at an ever-increasing rate . |
| 6 | Revised figures show that Britain 's GDP rose at an annual rate of 1.4% in the first quarter , up from the original estimate of 1.1% . |
| 7 | If we now look at what happens to total product between O and O L 1 units of labour and we can see total product rising at an increasing rate , right , which implies our marginal product positive but increases over that range O to L L 1 right , between the the range O L 1 and O L 3 , right , the total product is rising but at a decreasing rate a decreasing rate that implies that the marginal product is still positive , right , but falling . |
| 8 | Openness in discussion , the acceptance of the searching question and the admission of uncertainty are all signs of the process of change proceeding at an appropriate rate for the individuals concerned " ( Briault and West 1990:20 ) . |
| 9 | While the country 's heritage vanished at an ever-faster rate , our town centres would sprout cosmeticized precincts and flower boxes and hold congratulatory receptions . |
| 10 | The output of goods and services declined sharply in the fourth quarter ; preliminary estimates suggested that gross national product ( GNP ) in the quarter fell at an annual rate of 2.1 per cent ( after adjustments for inflation and seasonal factors ) , the sharpest fall since the third quarter of 1982 when GNP fell at an annual rate of 3.2 per cent . |
| 11 | The creature grows at an alarming rate , then escapes and cuts a swathe of destruction as it moves through the southern Italian countryside . |
| 12 | With the South Korean economy growing at an annual rate of 3.1 per cent during the third quarter of 1992 , the lowest recorded level of growth since 1981 , the state of the country 's economy was the key issue of the election campaign . |
| 13 | In the fourth quarter of 1992 , the economy grew at an annual rate of 4.7% , which gave a roseate glow to Bill Clinton 's first few weeks in office but always looked too good to last . |
| 14 | However , most of the next decade was a testimony to the wisdom of the Bretton Woods arrangements since international trade grew at an unprecedented rate . |
| 15 | Fiscal reform , considered vital to improving the budgetary position and reducing inflation ( which in August stood at an annualized rate of 1,055.4 per cent ) , was also a priority . |
| 16 | After the restriction of war time , building resumed at an accelerated rate . |
| 17 | Prices rose at an annual rate of 4% last month , up from 3.8% in April and their quickest pace of increase since March last year . |
| 18 | A. This argues that , since information arrives at an uneven rate , the observed distribution of futures price changes ( or returns ) will be a mixture of a number of normal distributions , and this observed distribution will be leptokurtic . |
| 19 | With 40 million people starving and infant mortality rising at an alarming rate , doctors must start pressurising governments and banks to stop this spiral of deprivation and environmental degradation in which the world 's poorest countries are trapped . |
| 20 | During the century after the Restoration rural industries such as framework knitting and nailmaking grew at an unprecedented rate and the industrial towns flourished as never before . |
| 21 | Fashions change at an alarming rate and at any given time experts hold differing views . |
| 22 | I can tell him , however , that over the 1980s GDP per head in this country rose at an average rate of nearly 2 per cent . |
| 23 | The OECD Economic Outlook indicated that the trade deficit in the USA stabilized at an annual rate $5,000 million lower than in the second half of 1988 . |
| 24 | London grew at an astonishing rate , from about 60,000 in 1500 to approximately 200,000 in 1600 and to an enormous 575,000 in 1700 , by which time it was probably the largest city in Europe . |
| 25 | Well , MCPS have a team of Licence Negotiators whose job it is to negotiate between the producer and our member to arrive at an agreeable rate . |
| 26 | The bank 's deposits grew at an explosive rate from £8m in 1891 to £67m by 1908 . |
| 27 | The output of goods and services declined sharply in the fourth quarter ; preliminary estimates suggested that gross national product ( GNP ) in the quarter fell at an annual rate of 2.1 per cent ( after adjustments for inflation and seasonal factors ) , the sharpest fall since the third quarter of 1982 when GNP fell at an annual rate of 3.2 per cent . |
| 28 | Their cash holdings declined at an annual rate of 7% in the last three months of 1992 . |
| 29 | This expansion is said to be " inflationary , " meaning that the universe at one time expanded at an increasing rate rather than the decreasing rate that it does today . |
| 30 | Because incense burns at an even rate and without flame , it is well suited for measuring the division of the religious day and for other purposes . |