Example sentences of "running at a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In these circumstances , it is not surprising to find that population loss from inner areas has been running at a lower rate in the 1980s and that the government 's efforts at introducing more private investment have met with some measure of success . |
| 2 | Geoff took up Vet running at a serious level two or three years ago and has forged through the ranks until arriving at the top of the O50s this season . |
| 3 | ‘ There was no escaping VAT , which hiked the price of the cars up , and inflation was running at a horrific rate , 1.5% or 2% a month , ’ says Mr Nearn . |
| 4 | Economic analyst Alex Henney , who has made a detailed study of the economics of nuclear power , estimates that , looking at the total balance sheet , the CEGB 's nuclear activities have been running at a substantial loss . |
| 5 | Peasant disturbances might be running at a low level , but evidence was mounting of severe discontent in the overpopulated black-earth regions . |
| 6 | Evidence from Sweden , where enteriditis has never been found in a poultry flock , shows food poisoning in humans exactly matches the UK profile and , in percentage terms , is running at a higher rate . |
| 7 | The damper torque acts as a drag torque on the motor shaft and also accelerates the damper rotor : If tile motor is operating at constant speed the damper rotor must also be running at a constant speed , so from Eqn . |
| 8 | Moreover it inevitably ran into difficulties and criticism in the early 1980s when the American economy was in serious trouble — with a steep rise in oil prices and no agreement on how to conserve energy , and with inflation , unemployment and interest rates all running at a high level . |
| 9 | ‘ Personal development is , we believe of key importance to ensure that motivation is always running at a high level . |
| 10 | So if there 's any er er erm thought that the er ombudsman complaints were running at a high level as far as this committee 's interest were concerned , I can confirm that that is n't in fact the case . |
| 11 | Those who were not hard pressed and in no immediate danger of running at a considerable loss might have no strong incentive to vote in favour of a course which threatened them with heavy losses in the immediate future . |
| 12 | In this case , a sequence of tasks ( possibly the complete analysis ) is presented to the machine which then detaches the job from the user 's control and queues it for running at a convenient time — perhaps overnight — the full results being returned to the user thereafter . |
| 13 | Erm for instance in the period eighty nine to ninety two , we were running at an annual average of about a hundred and seventy four conversions a year . |
| 14 | In the third economic package in 1989 [ for January and May measures see p. 36778 ] , measures were adopted by the Cabinet on July 7 with the aim of cooling the economy by lowering inflation ( then running at an annual rate of 6 per cent ) , by restricting economic growth to 4.5 per cent ( from its current annual rate of 6 per cent ) , and by withdrawing more than 500,000 million ptas from circulation , and also to stop tax fraud . |
| 15 | At the end of August , with inflation , exacerbated by the Gulf crisis , running at an annual rate of 22.7 per cent , the government had announced a wage increase of only 7.1 per cent for the final quarter of the year under the automatic wage indexation system , due to be abolished in 1991 . |
| 16 | Inflation was close to 7 per cent and the current-account deficit was running at an annual rate of around A$17,000 million . |
| 17 | The Financial Times of Feb. 28 commented that the move was likely to add to inflation , already running at an annual rate in excess of 100 per cent . |
| 18 | Russia 's inflation is running at an annual rate of 2,500 per cent . |
| 19 | The move was intended to bolster the strength of the deutschmark and to stem inflation ( running at an annualized rate of above 4 per cent , and in the Bundesbank 's view likely to become higher as a result of possible high wage settlements in the current round of pay talks and the government 's expansionary fiscal policy following unification ) . |
| 20 | The UNP — led by Chung Ju Yung , the founder of the Hyundai group , the country 's second-largest industrial conglomerate — secured 31 seats ( 24 in direct voting and seven in the national constituency ) after a vigorous , centrist , pro-business campaign , which attacked the economic record of the Roh government , and in particular its inability to reduce inflation , currently running at an annualized rate of approximately 10 per cent . |
| 21 | Introducing the broad outlines of an economic programme marking a new direction for Brazil , Haddad said on Dec. 31 that the fight against inflation , currently running at an annualized rate of about 1,500 per cent , took second place to plans to improve living standards by doubling and possibly quadrupling the minimum wage and creating 4,000,000 new jobs over the next two years through selective economic development . |