Example sentences of "continue [to-vb] at an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The applications of physics have widened and continue to widen at an incredible rate . |
| 2 | Many academic research projects take years to complete ; a scheme designed to support them must thus be future-proof — and this in a world where technology continues to mutate at an alarming rate . |
| 3 | At the close of the seventeenth century , however , towns and villages in certain industrial regions started to grow , and despite a setback in the 1720s they continued to expand at an astonishing rate throughout each decade of the eighteenth century . |
| 4 | But , while inflation slowed from the summer of 1974 , prices as a whole continued to rise at an annual rate of 10 per cent during the depths of the slump . |
| 5 | The estimated cost of the Channel tunnel continues to rise at an alarming rate , to the distress of both shareholders and the company 's bankers . |