at this/that rate

idiom

: if things continue to happen in the same way they have been happening
At this rate, the town's farmland will be gone within 20 years.

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If the account stays at that rate over the next year, your money would earn only 20 cents. Nerdwallet, Boston Herald, 18 Sep. 2024 Experts are concerned that these eruptions could carry on at this rate for tens or even hundreds of years. Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2024 Third-party forecasts such as this are steadily climbing as many aren’t used to a demand source growing at this rate. Mark Le Dain, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024 In 2020, the partnership estimated nearly 1 million of those units had rents low enough to be deemed affordable because landlords set the price at that rate even though there was no government mandate to do so. Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for at this/that rate 

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“At this/that rate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/at%20this%2Fthat%20rate. Accessed 24 Dec. 2024.

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