Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] at [art] [adj] rate " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coupled with this , however , we have to remember the huge concentration of such sediment in deltas such as that of the Mississippi , where it has been accumulating at a fantastic rate ( perhaps 10 000 feet in the same period of time ) . |
| 2 | More evidence of the worldwide decline of coral has emerged from Florida , where researchers who have been monitoring the health of the reefs since 1976 report that they are dying at a rapid rate . |
| 3 | The method of carbon dating is based on the assumption that these two reactions have been occurring at a constant rate for the past 15000 years . |
| 4 | Accelerated by the current economic recession , old manufacturing industries are disappearing while the new information technology based industries are developing at a high rate . |
| 5 | Both imports and exports were shown to be growing at a similar rate . |
| 6 | Both imports and exports were shown to be growing at a similar rate . |
| 7 | In rich societies , on the other hand , most people do have enough discretionary income left ( or have easy access to credit ) after they have paid for their food and shelter , though the numbers who do not appear to be growing at an alarming rate in some rich countries ( as the growth of homelessness in the United States and the United Kingdom seems to suggest ) . |
| 8 | A clock that 's going fast , looked at by someone whose mind is churning over faster by the same amount , seems to be going at the normal rate ! ’ |
| 9 | To maintain net investment at a constant positive level , demand for the firm 's product must be rising at a steady rate . |
| 10 | The decision to dynamite the rock , using five tons of explosives , was taken last week after it was found to be moving at an accelerated rate . |
| 11 | For net investment to increase , demand must be increasing at an increasing rate . |
| 12 | Levels of intermarriage , in the first place , varied considerably from republic to republic and from nationality to nationality ; and although the proportion of ethnically mixed families at the national and republican level might have been increasing , it did not necessarily follow that the incidence of intermarriage between each of the major nationalities had been increasing at a similar rate . |
| 13 | Experiments illustrated in figure 1 on fires in a storage of goods on pallets in open racks showed that in three minutes after ignition , the flames were growing at a dangerous rate , and that after eight minutes the flames had encompassed the whole height of the racking ( 18 m ) and were producing large volumes of acrid smoke . |
| 14 | Output prices were rising at an annual rate of 4½ p.c. last month , against 4.4 p.c. in February . |
| 15 | All of the world 's savannas have been affected by human activity and , as Table 7.2 shows , deforestation is occurring at a rapid rate due to agricultural development and fuelwood collection . |
| 16 | In the tropics , however , environmental change is occurring at an unprecedented rate where deforestation is creating local and , in all probability , global environmental problems since the demise of tropical rainforests in particular may well be contributing to the enhanced greenhouse effect ( section 5.3.1 ) . |
| 17 | This sea-floor spreading , as the phenomenon is known , is happening at an impressive rate : near the Galapagos Islands the sea-floor is expanding at eight inches a year ; down by Easter Island , by nine inches . |
| 18 | Communication by electronic means is growing at a rapid rate throughout industry and government organisations . |
| 19 | The Indian software industry is growing at an average rate of 35 per cent a year . |
| 20 | Counterfeiting is a multi million pound industry and all the signs are that it 's growing at an alarming rate . |
| 21 | Now this , is this is going at a fantastic rate . |
| 22 | Thus , it is not surprising that interaction between the two can result in cumulative movements in income for example , if income is rising at an increasing rate , both investment and consumption will be rising , causing further rises in income in the next period . |
| 23 | At that rate the flow of bank lending is , and the money supply is expanding at a corresponding rate . |
| 24 | For instance , it is compatible with the results of all actual and possible measurements to hold either that the universe is of a fixed size or that it is expanding at a constant rate . |
| 25 | Membership of most of the UK 's conservation and environment organisations is expanding at an unprecedented rate , according to a survey conducted by BBC Wildlife . |
| 26 | This , as Tudge ( 1988 ) discusses , is a major reason why it is necessary to prevent plant extinction , as is currently occurring in tropical rainforest regions where deforestation is proceeding at a rapid rate ( section 7.3.1 ) , and preserve as large a gene pool as possible . |
| 27 | Russia 's inflation is running at an annual rate of 2,500 per cent . |
| 28 | . And look at that , interpret it , think oh well , the distance is increasing only fairly gradually as time goes on , but when it gets to there , the distance is increasing at a constant rate , as time goes on , so we 've got a constant speed . |
| 29 | In June 1873 , the STC reported that it was " scarcely possible " to speak with confidence of the numbers employed , " perhaps they may reach 50 [ overall ] … but the number is increasing at an alarming rate " . |
| 30 | Car use is increasing at an alarming rate . |