Example sentences of "[v-ing] at the same rate " in BNC.

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1 Norway is a particularly interesting example where they saw a rocketing rate of smoking amongst adolescents they introduced a smoking ban , er an an advertising ban , and in fact , it 's reversed and they , they 're youngsters are not smoking at the same rate as as they were .
2 By different processes erm but nevertheless receding at the same rate .
3 Many professionals within the Lloyd 's market welcome the current crop of departures as there is an excess of financial capacity within the market at a time when business is not growing at the same rate as the available capacity .
4 A girl who is very tall for her age may fear that she will go on growing at the same rate indefinitely , while a boy who is shorter than his mates of the same age may be afraid that he will be permanently undersized .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 Indeed if both the missile and its antidote have been improving at the same rate , we can expect that the latest , most advanced and sophisticated versions , and the earliest , most primitive and simplest versions will be exactly as successful as each other , against their contemporary counter-devices .
8 A male , therefore , feeding at the same rate and converting energy into gametes at the same rate as a female , can produce gametes at a much higher rate .
9 The reason why there is no increase in output is that the typical supplier has correctly realized that the price on his island is rising at the same rate as the average level of prices , and there has therefore been no change in his relative price and so no incentive to raise output above its natural level .
10 Where the snout , or end , of a glacier stayed in one place for many years — which was when the ice was advancing at the same rate as it was melting — more and more boulder clay was dumped at the glacier snout .
11 A slowly varying current will produce a vector potential ( or a magnetic field ) varying at the same rate .
12 If the money supply is not also falling at the same rate , interest rates will fall and so encourage new investment .
13 Both beams were yellow , and they were arriving at the same rate .
14 Influenced by the work of G.K. Gilbert , Hack argued that the concept of dynamic equilibrium provides a more reasonable basis for the interpretation of topographic forms in an erosionally graded landscape , that every slope and stream channel in an erosional system is adjusted to every other , and when the topography is in equilibrium and erosional energy remains the same , all elements of the topography are downwasting at the same rate .
15 It is assumed that within a single erosional system all elements of the topography are mutually adjusted so that they are downwasting at the same rate .
16 The measured settling velocities are converted into ‘ equivalent sedimentation diameters ’ , or the diameters of spheres settling at the same rate as the natural particles being tested ( Gibbs , Matthews & link , 1971 ) .
17 I mean , surely the English hens were laying at the same rate as they did in peacetime ?
18 As the hull value of 707s , 727s , DC-8s and their ilk falls , their support costs — engines , systems , airport facilities etc , is not decreasing at the same rate .
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