Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] at an [adj] rate " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the first two years of the Thatcher Government are excluded — when the Government managed to achieve a negative rate of growth — the British economy has grown at an average rate of 3 per cent . |
| 2 | Lynda Warren , author of the report , said : " This industry has grown at an alarming rate , in a complete policy vacuum . |
| 3 | M4 , the best measure we have , has risen at an annual rate of around 18 per cent , and even this year it has continued to rise at that rate . |
| 4 | The ozone layer over Europe has already been reduced by 10 per cent in the last ten years , and is expected to decline at an accelerating rate . |
| 5 | Britain 's reported current-account deficit has run at an annual rate of £20 billion ( $34 billion ) in the first two months of this year , equivalent to 4% of GDP — even bigger than America 's . |
| 6 | Paul calls his children the Tribbles , after the small furry creatures that make strange cooing noises and seem to reproduce at an alarming rate . |
| 7 | indeed , was beginning to increase at an alarming rate — the resources to meet the challenge were simply not to hand . |
| 8 | I thus set about preparing for the days ahead as , I imagine , a general might prepare for a battle : I devised with utmost care a special staff plan anticipating all sorts of eventualities ; I analysed where our weakest points lay and set about making contingency plans to fall back upon in the event of these points giving way ; I even gave the staff a military-style ‘ pep-talk ’ , impressing upon them that , for all their having to work at an exhausting rate , they could feel great pride in discharging their duties over the days that lay ahead . |
| 9 | The applications of physics have widened and continue to widen at an incredible rate . |
| 10 | Inflation was estimated to increase at an annual rate of 4.5 per cent for 1990 , according to the OECD World Economic Outlook . |
| 11 | Consumer prices had accelerated at an annualized rate of 5.5 per cent in January 1990 , and the visible trade surplus in 1989 was the lowest recorded for 10 years . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Many academic research projects take years to complete ; a scheme designed to support them must thus be future-proof — and this in a world where technology continues to mutate at an alarming rate . |
| 14 | At the close of the seventeenth century , however , towns and villages in certain industrial regions started to grow , and despite a setback in the 1720s they continued to expand at an astonishing rate throughout each decade of the eighteenth century . |
| 15 | The Mersey building programme had continued at an impressive rate throughout 1990 with orders recently placed for the last 14 fibre reinforced composite ( FRC ) boats — due to be completed within the next 22 months . |
| 16 | But , while inflation slowed from the summer of 1974 , prices as a whole continued to rise at an annual rate of 10 per cent during the depths of the slump . |
| 17 | The estimated cost of the Channel tunnel continues to rise at an alarming rate , to the distress of both shareholders and the company 's bankers . |
| 18 | From about 1850 , it begins to decline at an increasing rate up to the present day ( figure 2.5 ) . |
| 19 | It 's right that Joe Hawkins and Allen 's other legendary aggro merchants should now be given a new lease of life , and Allen is absolutely sure of his books ' continued relevance : ‘ The doubts and problems which confronted yesteryear 's skinheads have multiplied at an alarming rate in today 's world . |