According to one report, the water is advancing at a rate of between 8 and 10 inches a day.

根据一份报告，大水在以每天8至10英寸的速度逼近。

If such practices are unchecked, half the species in the Coral triangle will continue to disappear at a rate of 1-2% a year.

如果这些行为不加以制止，那么珊瑚三角区内一半的物种将以每年1-2％的速度继续消亡。

Danielle Steel, the 71-year-old romance novelist is notoriously productive, having published 179 books at a rate of up to seven a year.

71岁的浪漫小说家丹妮尔·斯蒂尔是出了名的高产，以每年多达7本的速度出版了179本书。

In places, the water table is declining at a rate of a meter a year, necessitating the periodic deepening of wells and the use of ever-more-powerful pumps.

在一些地方，水位正以每年一米的速度下降，需要定期加深井并使用更强大的水泵。

New diet books appear at a rate of nearly one a week.

饮食方面的新书以几乎每周一本的频率出版。

Car hijackings are running at a rate of nearly 50 a day.

平均每天发生50起劫车事件。

A mole can dig at a rate of 3.5m per hour.

鼹鼠在一个小时内能挖3.5米深的洞穴。

While most disease-causing mutated are found in humans at a rate of one in a few thousand to one in a few million people, founder mutation can occur at much higher rates.

虽然大多数致病突变在人类中发现的概率为千分之一到百万分之一，但基础突变发生的几率可能高得多。

Push at a rate of 100 beats a minute.

保持一分钟一百次的频率。

Royal Mail says it is losing traffic at a rate of some 10% a year.

皇家邮政说，他们目前每年都会流失10%的业务量。

Meanwhile, chain pubs and café-bars are opening at a rate of two a week.

与此同时，连锁酒吧和咖啡酒吧的数量以每周两家的速度增加。

Since the recovery began, the economy has grown at a rate of less than 3%.

本次经济复苏之后，增长率一直保持在3%以下。

In recent years, melting has accelerated at a rate of 7 percent each year.

近年来的融化速度每年递增7%。

For example, "by 3x" means at a rate of three times that seen on that day.

例如，“ by 3x ”意味着是那天看到的速率的3倍。

The company designed the car to be built at a rate of 10,000 or more a year.

该公司每年设计和制造的汽车在1万台以上。

The company designed the car to be built at a rate of 10, 000 or more a year.

该公司每年设计和制造的汽车在1万台以上。

The media is shackled, and executions are occurring at a rate of almost two a day.

媒体被控制，死刑的执行几乎是一天两个。

Nigeria, by contrast, has been chopping its forests down at a rate of 3.7% a year.

相比之下，尼日利亚每年的森林砍伐率为3.7%。

He expects the economy to grow at a rate of around 2.5% in the second half of the year.

他预计下半年的增长率约为2.5%。

This happens at a rate of 125 million symbols per second-the same rate as Fast Ethernet.

传送信号的速度和快速以太网一样，达到每秒12.5亿个数据符。

Then, the water level began to drop at a rate of 30 centimeters (about a foot) each year.

那时，水平面开始以每年30厘米的速度下降。

Telecoms operators are seeing customers abandon landlines at a rate of 700,000 per month.

电信运营商们眼睁睁看着固定电话用以每月70万户的速度流失。

By some estimates, the Sahara desert in Africa is growing at a rate of 0.5 miles per month.

据估计，非洲的撒哈拉大沙漠正以每月0.5英里的速度扩展。

Over an 18-month period, patients receiving the placebo relapsed at a rate of 70 percent.

在18个月治疗期间，服用安慰剂的患者复发率为70%。

And those graduating from public colleges defaulted at a rate of 6%, an increase from 5.9%.

公立大学毕业生的违约率为6%，高于07年的5.9%。

Nevertheless, in the third quarter the economy has probably been growing at a rate of only 1.5-2%.

此外，三季度经济增长率非常可能只有1.5-2%。

In the US, mercury levels in the environment have been increasing at a rate of 1.5% each year since 1970.

在美国，环境中的汞含量不断增加，自1970年以来每年的增长率为1.5%。