Example sentences of "grow at [art] rate " in BNC.

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1 Lichenologists have estimated that crustose lichens in Alaska and Lappland grow at a rate of 3–4mm/100 years , which would make lichens there of 480 mm diameter at least 9000 years old .
2 A form of extendible hashing that does not suffer from oscillations and is claimed to outperform most indexing methods , was reported by Lomet He named the method bounded index exponential hashing ; it is not strictly a direct technique , and suffers from the drawback that the file packing density is generally low , but offers many advantages for files which can grow at a rate that can not be accommodated in a static system .
3 The administration 's forecast that the economy would grow at a rate of 3.3 per cent with interest rates falling by 2 per cent was castigated as unrealistic , a view echoed by most economic commentators .
4 Sustained growth sounds unconvincing in the mouth of the Government because , in the past few years , Britain has grown at a rate well below trend growth and below the OECD average , managing a paltry 0.75 per cent .
5 Previously their real and money wages had grown at a rate q , the rate of productivity growth .
6 Similarly , broad money is growing at a rate of just 6.1 per cent against 10.9 per cent a year ago .
7 Growing at a rate of about ten metres a day , by May 1903 the spine was no less than 310 metres high , rearing up above St Pierre like a memorial obelisk , a tribute to the thousands that had died below .
8 iXOS , founded in 1988 by Hans Strach Zimmerman , formerly with Siemens AG , and Eberhard Faerber , founder of Peripherie Computer Systeme GmbH , is a privately-held company that has been growing at a rate of 50% per year , and employs 110 staff .
9 Dataquest Corp says the end-user market in Japan for Unix-based relational databases will be worth $705.6m in 1996 , growing at a rate of 43% a year through that year .
10 Dataquest Corp says the end-user market in Japan for Unix-based relational databases will be worth $705.6m in 1996 , growing at a rate of 43% a year through that year .
11 iXOS , founded in 1988 by Hans Strach Zimmerman ( ex Siemens ) and Eberhard Faerber ( founder of PCS Computer Systems ) , is a privately-owned company that has been growing at a rate of 50% per year , employs 110 staff .
12 Within a few decades , forests and animals had returned to the shattered islands which were all that remained of Krakatoa 's outer rim ; and from the waters between them emerged an ominous smoking mound , sometimes growing at a rate of more than three feet a month .
13 Diagnostic radiology is growing at a rate of between 5 and 15 per cent per year in many technically developed countries which , together with the rapid growth rate expected in developing countries , will lead to substantial increases in the global dose commitment in the future .
14 It is growing at a rate of around a billion every 12 years .
15 British and German inflation rates have moved together , but the German economy is growing at a rate of 3.5 per cent. , while the British economy is in recession and shrinking by 2.5 per cent .
16 Despite the nationwide economic recession , at the time of the election Queensland 's tourism-driven economy was growing at a rate second only to that of mineral-rich Western Australia , with economic growth for the current fiscal year estimated at 4 per cent compared with 3 per cent for Australia as a whole .
17 Currently ( 1993 ) there are some twenty million users worldwide of the most commonly used electronic network , Internet , a figure that is growing at a rate of ten percent per month .
18 The latest figures show that steady growth continued over the last three months and that as a whole , the economy is growing at a rate of two and a half percent a year .
19 Mr Lamont forecasts that the economy will be growing at the rate of three per cent per year in 12 months ' time ; he would have carried more conviction , if he had not made the same ‘ jam tomorrow ’ forecast a year ago .
20 ‘ Those who had followed Peel with open eyes ( to abolish protection and destroy his own party ) … had done so because population was growing at the rate of 300,000 per annum .
21 The city is growing at the rate of 6,000 people a month , whilst 90% of the state 's water supplies are currently used by just 6,000 farmers .
22 World population is growing at the rate of 100 million per year , and will rise from 5.4 billion in 1991 to 10 billion in 2050 .
23 There was also an admission that the demand for water is not growing at the rate Thames Water had earlier predicted .
24 If these rates were maintained then , with population growing at the rate of 1 per cent a year , each generation could expect to be roughly twice as well off as its parents and four times as well off as its grandparents .
25 The intention was to reduce it to that rate which would constrain aggregate demand to grow at a rate which could be met by increases in real output .
26 Second , he assumes that the natural level of output grows at a rate which for any individual country is a constant over time but which may differ between countries .
27 When church statistics paint a picture of general decline , a movement which grows at the rate of two congregations each week is a striking feature .
28 The Araceae family also includes the world 's most troublesome weed — the water-lettuce , which grows at the rate of one tonne per acre per day in the tropics and is an expensive hazard .
29 Throughout the nineteenth century output per person grew at a rate of 1.5 per cent per annum .
30 Spatially , this will be expressed in further counterurbanization and as Bradshaw and Blakeley ( 1979 , 27 ) point out : ‘ the rural areas [ of California ] grew at a rate nearly double that of the state as a whole ’ between 1970 and 1976 .
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