Example sentences of "be growing at [art] [adj] rate " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is quite possible that the economy may converge to a steady state not characterized by equilibrium , e.g. , where capital and the labour force are growing at the same rate , but there is a constant level of unemployment . |
| 2 | Both imports and exports were shown to be growing at a similar rate . |
| 3 | Both imports and exports were shown to be growing at a similar rate . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | Experiments illustrated in figure 1 on fires in a storage of goods on pallets in open racks showed that in three minutes after ignition , the flames were growing at a dangerous rate , and that after eight minutes the flames had encompassed the whole height of the racking ( 18 m ) and were producing large volumes of acrid smoke . |
| 6 | Communication by electronic means is growing at a rapid rate throughout industry and government organisations . |
| 7 | First , air traffic in the Asia-Pacific region is growing at a faster rate than anywhere else in the world . |
| 8 | The result is that once those who are unable to purchase have negotiated their way through the labyrinthine and highly variable eligibility rules to achieve a place on a council housing waiting list , they join a queue which is growing at a faster rate than addition to the council housing stock and which in some cases even exceeds the total number of families housed by the district council . |
| 9 | The Indian software industry is growing at an average rate of 35 per cent a year . |
| 10 | Counterfeiting is a multi million pound industry and all the signs are that it 's growing at an alarming rate . |
| 11 | ‘ In 1346 the population of Europe comprised eighty million people , and was growing at a rapid rate . |
| 12 | McCoist did snatch at a mistimed clearance from Buttigieg but by then the appeal of a substitution was growing at the same rate as the crowd 's dismay . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |