Example sentences of "be [v-ing] at [art] rate " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of workers on the land has been shrinking at the rate of nearly 20000 per year , although this has not occurred in a completely uniform fashion . |
| 2 | We saw awful conditions in Bouzoulouk , where , out of a population of 35,000 they are dying at the rate of 100 a day . |
| 3 | You 're accelerating at a rate of four hundred miles per hour per hour . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Like the stately swan gliding serenely over the water , few suspect that under the surface the legs and feet are going at a rate of knots , with the result that the following items are in the pipeline , if not already attended to : — |
| 7 | House prices in Greater London have been rising at a rate of around 15 to 18 per cent over the past couple of years . |
| 8 | The water levels of the China Sea are rising at the rate of approximately 1-2 mm per year , according to the National Natural Science Foundation of Beijing . |
| 9 | Earlier this month , people were reported to be dying at the rate of 30 a day from hunger and the effects of Serb shelling . |
| 10 | At one point earlier this month townspeople were reported to be dying at the rate of 30 a day from shellfire and starvation . |
| 11 | Right , let's move on to the last session , where we 're going to be looking at the rate books . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | At one stage the waters of Oulton Broad were reported to be rising at a rate of eight inches an hour . |
| 14 | My time is extremely valuable , and I am not going to be kept waiting here while people like patients take up five or 10 minutes when I shall not be earning at a rate that would put the salary of Members of Parliament to shame . |
| 15 | It clearly is not the case , that , we have heard from the city this morning , and in the city alone windfalls have been progressing at the rate of eighty per annum , if it was only half that rate over the next thirteen years we would see five hundred more houses , and that excludes windfalls from the rest of the Greater York area , excluding the city of York . |
| 16 | Ethnic Germans and asylum-seekers are entering at a rate of 1,600 per day . |
| 17 | Converted to luminosity , this means that the sun 's brightness has been dimming at a rate of 0.05 per cent per year , a figure that is in good agreement with the satellite results . |
| 18 | Despite a 15-year ban on trading in rhino horn , numbers of black rhinos has fallen from around 65,000 in 1977 to 2,500 ; numbers are falling at the rate of 28 per cent a year . |
| 19 | According to Tektronix UK Ltd , Marlow , Buckinghamshire , commercially available X-Windows applications are increasing at a rate of 40% a year : under the company 's validation programme , over 60 new applications have been approved after testing on Tektronix TekXpress X terminals . |
| 20 | They contribute 14 per cent of the greenhouse effect and are increasing at the rate of 6 per cent a year . |
| 21 | The UN protection force , Unprofor , and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees had called for an air corridor after reports that refugees in Srebrenica were dying at a rate of 20 a day from exposure and starvation . |
| 22 | On Aug. 2 the UOF published in Paris an appeal to non-governmental organizations to send aid to some 200,000 civilians in the north and south-west of Djibouti , who it claimed were dying at the rate of 100 a day due to the effects of drought and a government blockade of areas of rebel activity . |
| 23 | During 1989 a total of 21,882 people , nearly twice as many as in 1988 and most of them from Eastern Europe , sought asylum in Austria , and during the first three months of 1990 the numbers reached 5,000 , most of them being Romanians who were arriving at a rate of 200 per day in late February . |
| 24 | By the time of Mrs Mandelbaum 's party , they were arriving at the rate of about fifty a month … |
| 25 | Koirala told parliament on March 9 that more than 20,000 Bhutanese refugees had arrived in Nepal since July 1991 and more were arriving at the rate of 200 a day . |
| 26 | Though officially designated European Architectural Heritage Year , listed buildings , we calculated , were disappearing at the rate of one a day . |
| 27 | To get the clean price we subtract the interest that has been accruing at the rate of d per cent up to that day . |
| 28 | Mr and Mrs P saw no prospect of the housing market 's recovering at a rate fast enough to overtake the income shortfall or , still less , the rate at which their overall debt was steadily increasing . |
| 29 | Even if the Sun is shrinking at a rate of merely 0–01 per cent per century it would totally disappear in a million years ; and it would have been twice its present size a million years ago . |
| 30 | Similarly , broad money is growing at a rate of just 6.1 per cent against 10.9 per cent a year ago . |