Example sentences of "being [vb pp] at the rate " in BNC.
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| 1 | If insects are being named at the rate of about 7,250 species a year and synonymized at about 1,450 a year , then these rates are within our capacity for entry into master inventories . |
| 2 | During the year , pesticides whose use is banned in the US were being exported at the rate of 15 tons a day . |
| 3 | That was because there were over four million men being demobbed at the rate of 10,000 a day . |
| 4 | During 1938 and 1939 slum-dwellers were being rehoused at the rate of 1,000 a day . |
| 5 | But four main factors are singled out by Chris Green for the currently greatly improved outlook : the record investment currently being made , at the end of 1989 amounting to an astonishing million pounds a day ; the success of the Networker train whose carriages in 1989 were being delivered at the rate of one a day ; the enormous level of London station development both enhancing the environment ( who at the start of the 1980s would have thought of treating a terminus as a shopping precinct ? ) and producing revenue on the grand scale ; and the steady introduction of Integrated Electronic Control Centres ( discussed in detail in the signalling chapter ) . |
| 6 | In fact , only one per cent of plants in the rainforest have been fully analysed ; and yet the forests are being destroyed at the rate of fifty to a hundred acres per minute . |
| 7 | Around 2 million hectares of natural forest remain , and this is being cleared at the rate of around 100,000-200,000 hectares every year . |