Example sentences of "[be] [verb] at [adv] [art] rate " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let us suppose that NBFIs maintain a stable proportion of bank deposits to total assets and that their assets are growing at twice the rate of nominal income . |
| 2 | This was caused by the sudden interest of the water authorities in privately owned schemes using waterpower which , owing to the abundance of steep-flowing rivers in Wales , were proliferating at quite a rate . |
| 3 | erm Now , perhaps we come back to what can we do at this end , and I think Friends of the Earth has done an excellent job in bringing it to peoples ' attention that large areas of tropical forest are being destroyed at roughly the rate of 0.7 or 0.8 percent of the forest each year , erm and they , you know I 'm in agreement with them on the fact that forest is disappearing , it 's dangerous in many places , it 's catastrophic in some , for instance , particularly in West Africa , the clearing that 's gone on in the Ivory Coast is pretty disastrous , and erm there are indications that the West African strip of forest along the strip of the West African Coast by removing that you 're going to make not only that area slightly drier , but mainly the northern areas of those countries , and the drier , so it may well affect climate . |
| 4 | Europe , which accounts for one-third of IBM 's revenue , is growing at twice the rate of the US market , but Asia continues to be the fastest-growing region . |
| 5 | However , there is indirect evidence that the orbit of a binary pair , one member of which is the pulsar PSR 1913+16 , is collapsing at exactly the rate expected due to the loss of energy in gravitational radiation . |