Example sentences of "begin [to-vb] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | indeed , was beginning to increase at an alarming rate — the resources to meet the challenge were simply not to hand . |
| 2 | But his interest grew as he worked , and he began to aim at a comprehensive expository commentary on Epicurus . |
| 3 | Spa towns led by Bath , ports headed by Bristol and Liverpool and including the new venture at Whitehaven , and manufacturing centres like Birmingham , Leeds , Manchester and Sheffield began to grow at a significant rate . |
| 4 | We began to run at a great speed through the trees , and Silver was soon thirty metres behind us . |
| 5 | The population of the town soon began to expand at a phenomenal rate . |
| 6 | Many beginners find it difficult , at first , to remember the Japanese phrases , but within the first few months of practice the language barrier begins to fade at a rapid rate . |
| 7 | As growing organisms incorporate radio-carbon and after death of the organism the trapped radio-carbon begins to decay at a known rate with half lost after 5730 years , it is possible to indicate when death occurred . |
| 8 | From about 1850 , it begins to decline at an increasing rate up to the present day ( figure 2.5 ) . |