Example sentences of "grow at an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In the previous four years GNP had grown at an average rate of about 3 per cent per annum which was lower than the preceding years and unemployment had reached a peak of 8.3 per cent in 1970 .
2 If the first two years of the Thatcher Government are excluded — when the Government managed to achieve a negative rate of growth — the British economy has grown at an average rate of 3 per cent .
3 In 1979 , the World Bank published a glowing report , Romania : Industrialization under Socialist Planning , which claimed , on the basis of official Romanian government figures , that in the quarter century between 1950 and 1975 , the Romanian economy had grown at an average compound annual rate of over 9% .
4 Lynda Warren , author of the report , said : " This industry has grown at an alarming rate , in a complete policy vacuum .
5 In spite of this German industry expanded rapidly : between 1870 and 1913 the UK economy was growing at an annual rate of about 2.2 per cent ; the French economy at 2.6 per cent ; the US economy at 3.2 per cent ; and the German economy at a staggering 4.3 per cent .
6 Once Korn/Ferry 's annual fee income — growing at an annual rate of 30% — had overtaken that of Heidrick and Struggles by 1978 and Boyden by 1979 , they sought overseas expansion .
7 With the South Korean economy growing at an annual rate of 3.1 per cent during the third quarter of 1992 , the lowest recorded level of growth since 1981 , the state of the country 's economy was the key issue of the election campaign .
8 If the economy is not growing at an annual rate of 3 per cent by the middle of 1994 as the Chancellor 's Budget arithmetic assumes , revenues will be less buoyant and the spending on welfare will be greater than forecast .
9 The Indian software industry is growing at an average rate of 35 per cent a year .
10 In this context Japan 's overwhelming dependence on imported oil set off the most severe economic recession since World War II and GNP actually fell by 1 per cent in 1974 after growing at an average rate of nearly 10 per cent in the previous six years .
11 If anything was growing at an alarming rate , it was the network of railway lines running out of the centre of London to outlying suburbs .
12 In rich societies , on the other hand , most people do have enough discretionary income left ( or have easy access to credit ) after they have paid for their food and shelter , though the numbers who do not appear to be growing at an alarming rate in some rich countries ( as the growth of homelessness in the United States and the United Kingdom seems to suggest ) .
13 Counterfeiting is a multi million pound industry and all the signs are that it 's growing at an alarming rate .
14 The poverty figures are still growing at an alarming rate . ’
15 Bamboo grows at an amazing pace .
16 ‘ The US economic recovery is well on its way , as long as the Fed makes sure that the money supply grows at an appropriate pace , ’ said Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady .
17 The creature grows at an alarming rate , then escapes and cuts a swathe of destruction as it moves through the southern Italian countryside .
18 Membership grew at an astonishing pace , reaching close to 30,000 in the late 1970s .
19 London grew at an astonishing rate , from about 60,000 in 1500 to approximately 200,000 in 1600 and to an enormous 575,000 in 1700 , by which time it was probably the largest city in Europe .
20 The leading sector , in terms of annual growth , had been data-processing equipment , which grew at an annual average of 30 per cent in real terms .
21 In the fourth quarter of 1992 , the economy grew at an annual rate of 4.7% , which gave a roseate glow to Bill Clinton 's first few weeks in office but always looked too good to last .
22 The comparative performance of the French economy may be judged more or less favourably , depending on the criteria and the time-frame used , but over the decade of the 1960s as a whole it grew at an annual rate that matched or surpassed the record of most of France 's main trading partners .
23 The bank 's deposits grew at an explosive rate from £8m in 1891 to £67m by 1908 .
24 However , most of the next decade was a testimony to the wisdom of the Bretton Woods arrangements since international trade grew at an unprecedented rate .
25 During the century after the Restoration rural industries such as framework knitting and nailmaking grew at an unprecedented rate and the industrial towns flourished as never before .
26 Their gig attendances grew at an alarming rate and occasional support spots to The Fall were no longer a viable notion .
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