Example sentences of "at the present rate " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the present rate of referral , numbers are more than set to double during the year . |
| 2 | * At the present rate of destruction many countries whose only real asset is the forest may have none at all by the year 2,000 . |
| 3 | If sport carries on combining with showbiz at the present rate , this dingy logic will eventually be hard to resist . |
| 4 | Mortgage interest tax relief will continue at the present rate . |
| 5 | If she was well enough to formulate a view on the question - and at the present rate of progress it looked as if she might be — Elinor would take a dim view of the poisoning of Tibbles . |
| 6 | How many extra people are there in Britain each year , at the present rate of natural increase ? 56 000 000 × 3 ÷ 1000 = … ? |
| 7 | And even an enthusiast like her admits that the growth in converts to her cause can not continue at the present rate . |
| 8 | Peter Daley of Waste Management International has pointed out in a lecture to Britain 's Royal Academy of Engineering that landfills , at the present rate of waste generation in Europe , use about two square metres of land per person per century . |
| 9 | Well here 's news for IBM — at the present rate , it will have lost 100% of its mainframe sales in five years , almost all of them not to competing IBM products but to competing companies . |
| 10 | It may increase slightly but if fertility continues to decline at the present rate that is unlikely . |
| 11 | There is festering resentment in dark green quarters over what is seen as Julia 's reluctance to state baldly that there is no such thing as a green product , or that continued consumption at the present rate can only lead to us all dying in some particularly horrible way . |
| 12 | If Dreadnought went on sinking at the present rate , in ten minutes the hole would n't be above the waterline , but below . |
| 13 | ‘ If the number of candidates keeps rising at the present rate ’ , he said , ‘ then by the year 2010 the entire population of the world will have a SCOTVEC National Certificate ! ’ |
| 14 | Work on the index began in July 1983 , and at the present rate of progress the initial data preparation phase should be finished by January 1988 . |
| 15 | At the present rate , emissions from aircraft are set to increase by 50 per cent by 2020 . |
| 16 | One fifth of England will have been lost to urban sprawl by 2050 if development continues at the present rate , according to the Council for the Protection of Rural England . |
| 17 | The world tiger population is estimated at between 6,000-9,000 ; if poaching continues at the present rate the tiger will be extinct by early next century , according to expert predictions . |
| 18 | On the subject of Curtis Cup selection , she says : ‘ Oh , that 's a long way off , ’ though at the present rate of progress , it may not be as distant a prospect as she thinks . |
| 19 | and erm , it is therefore in those circumstances foolhardy in my opinion to carry on with the British Assessment Programme at the present rate when the effects on our roads are likely to be so drastic |