Example sentences of "[v-ing] at [adv] the [adj] rate " in BNC.
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1 | ( 3 ) Why did the universe start out with so nearly the critical rate of expansion that separates models that recollapse from those that go on expanding forever , so that even now , ten thousand million years later , it is still expanding at nearly the critical rate ? |
2 | For example , one can calculate the probability that the universe is expanding at nearly the same rate in all different directions at a time when the density of the universe has its present value . |
3 | The inflation was a good thing in that it produced a universe that was smooth and uniform on a large scale and was expanding at just the critical rate to avoid recollapse . |
4 | The universe would then go on to expand and cool just like the hot big bang model , but there would now be an explanation of why the universe was expanding at exactly the critical rate and why different regions had the same temperature . |
5 | In its efforts to raise revenue to pay off the debt , Maxxam has been logging at twice the usual rate . |
6 | But , as the focal length of the projector increases , making the screen image smaller , the focal length of the camera lens is increasing at precisely the same rate ( zoom lenses commonly run from about 25mm to over 200mm in focal length ) . |
7 | 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 . |