Hours before the hurricane hit, the Connecticut River was 12 feet above flood stage and rising at the rate of six inches an hour.

Heavy snow was continuously reported, falling at rates of up to 4 inches (10 cm) per hour.

The water rose at an alarming rate of 3 to 6 inches an hour.

With draining, the water table drops and so does the land, at a present rate of eight inches a century.

It grows at an annual rate of roughly 6 inches for the first three years of its life.

The snow was mounting at the rate of two inches an hour or faster.

The growth of hair is usually at the rate of 0.5 inches per month.

During the middle of the day, it advanced at the rate of ten inches and a fraction in five hours.

It was just touching the skin and descending at the rate of approximately two inches per hour.

The plates are pulling apart at a rate of eight inches a year, faster than anywhere else on earth.