Example sentences of "continue [to-vb] at a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The volume of data being created is continuing to explode at a rate seemingly far in excess of what a diminishing workforce ought to be able to produce . |
| 2 | Given this evaporation rate and the smaller inflows into the sea , the level is continuing to drop at a rate of about 0.5 m a year . |
| 3 | Last night ministers continued to look at a compromise prepared by the EC commissioner Sir Leon Brittan , incorporating a Dutch-led formula where the higher level would be the norm but governments would have the option of asking Brussels to intervene for mergers breaking £1.4bn . |
| 4 | In December 1987 the cost-of-living index was 170 per cent above its level in December of the previous year , and even under the ‘ price freeze ’ of the first few months of 1988 , prices continued to rise at a rate equivalent to an annual rate of about 100 per cent . |
| 5 | So , an ‘ epidemic ’ of heroin use occurs when incidence rises ( above the normal , endemic level of use ) and continues to rise at a rate higher than the outcidence rate . |
| 6 | Peckle hardly moved but continued to peer at a document covered in strange cipher markings . |
| 7 | But it continued to trade at a loss and in November 1987 the Society implemented one of PW 's original recommendations by calling in its loan . |