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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