Example sentences of "[verb] at an [adj] [adj] rate " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between 1950 and the mid 1970s in the Bolivian Andes , the production of cold and temperate-climate crops , grown by the peasantry , expanded at an average annual rate of 4.4 per cent , particularly high levels being recorded in the 1950s after agrarian reform ( Ortega 1982 ) . |
| 2 | This market is currently valued at $6,500m worldwide and is expected to grow at an aggregate annual rate of 13% . |
| 3 | A highly controversial New Brazil ( Brasil Nuevo ) austerity plan , announced by Collor on March 15 , combined free-market reforms with strong government intervention in order drastically to reduce inflation ( running at an estimated monthly rate of 85 per cent ) and to eliminate a US$31,000 million federal budget deficit . |
| 4 | According to Blecher , ‘ Per capita grain production grew at an average annual rate of 3.7 per cent from 1978 to 1984 , compared to 1.2 per cent during the previous thirteen years ’ ( Benewick and Wingrove 1988 : 100 ) . |
| 5 | As of May 18 the yuan was being traded at an official central rate of US$1.00=5.3199 yuan , compared with US$1.00=5.2819 yuan on April 20 . |
| 6 | There will be slight inaccuracies in these estimates as a few claims will be received in April each year and be paid at a new rate after a rise in fees , and some very late claims may be paid at an old lower rate . |