Sentence examples for grown at a slower rate from inspiring English sources

So does any place that has grown at a slower rate than the state average.

While the population of the state of Assam has grown at a slower rate than the national average of 17.6 percent, 13 districts have surpassed the national rate.

In fact, New York City's overall spending has grown at a slower rate than the average of the nation's top 10 cities during Mr. Giuliani's six years in office.

Gasoline prices have hovered around $2 a gallon in most of the country all summer, and last week the government reported that the economy had grown at a slower rate than expected in the second quarter, in part because of high energy prices.

Four-fifths of Brazil's output of 1.7m barrels a day of oil is pumped from wells off Rio's shores, decanting some $3 billion in revenues to state coffers.But since 1985, employment in Rio has grown at a slower rate than in any other of Brazil's 26 states.

First, to those who feared the black population would grow faster after emancipation, Doolittle showed that, since 1840, the nation's free black population had actually grown at a slower rate than the slave population while, in the same period, the white population had grown faster than both the slave and free-black population.

BLACKSTONE PROFIT DROPS DESPITE RISE IN ASSETS The investment titan reported a 24 percent drop in earnings from a year ago, as its holdings grew at a slower rate.

Revenue from television and magazine advertising is growing at a slower rate, agency executives said.

True, it is growing at a slower rate than in the past.

By contrast, the counties near Philadelphia and elsewhere in South Jersey grew at a slower rate.

But these revenues will grow at a slower rate in future.