Sentence examples for a rate of almost from inspiring English sources

In 2004, when home prices were climbing at a rate of almost 10 percent a year — more than four times the increase in rents — the core index would have been over 5 percent had home prices been included.

Russia – a population of about 150 million people at time of the fall of the Soviet Union – was losing people at a rate of almost a million a year, a combination of a reluctance to procreate and a proclivity, from men at least, to die young.

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

At 163 for 6, Lancashire required 67 to win at a rate of almost five an over.

One customer was promised a 7 percent mortgage but received one carrying a rate of almost 14 percent, it said.

Groundwater is pouring into the plant's ravaged reactor buildings at a rate of almost 75 gallons a minute.

With a rating of almost 100, Vancouver is the world's most liveable city according to the Economist Intelligence Unit's latest liveability ranking (see full report).

In the three weeks covered by yesterday's reports, the campaigns spent money at a combined rate of almost $1.4 million a day, most of that on television ads.

Yet so far, and despite Spain's struggling with a jobless rate of almost 23 percent, only a few thousand Ecuadoreans have packed their bags to go back home.

The generalized epidemic in East and Central Harlem created a prevalence rate of almost 3%, but a death rate of almost 3 per 100 people living with HIV/AIDS.

Roy, 24, was the leading T20 Blast run-scorer with 677 at an average of 48.35 and a strike rate of almost 160.