Example sentences of "rate of [noun sg] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We need , therefore , to distinguish carefully between potential rates of weathering related to climatic parameters , and actual rates of weathering related to conditions at the weathering front . |
| 2 | Quarterly progressions , translated at rates of exchange applying on 31st December 1992 were : — |
| 3 | Quarterly progressions , translated at rates of exchange applying on 30th June 1993 were : — |
| 4 | However , this benefit must be weighed against the higher rates of haemorrhage associated with intravenous heparin as well as the higher rates of stroke with tPA than with other thrombolytics . |
| 5 | But in the absence of an increase in the speed of mechanization in the early seventies , the peak rates of accumulation achieved at that time generated peak intensities of demand for labour . |
| 6 | During this period , most commodity prices fell about a third , rates of interest dwindled to vanishing point ( as it appeared to those who remembered the inflationary middle decades of the century ) , and banking and commercial disasters multiplied . |
| 7 | This reduction reflects lower rates of interest earned on short term investment . |
| 8 | Stocks and rates of production vary from one area of the Southern Ocean to another . |
| 9 | In this context it is noted that there tend to be high rates of drop-out associated with part-time study , and those who have been successful will have displayed the commitment and capabilities necessary for success in higher education . |
| 10 | The greatest rates of deforestation occurred in Latin America , followed by Africa and Asia . |
| 11 | Probably because of the very much greater stick forces and lower rates of pitch occurring in most light aircraft . |
| 12 | We may tend to assume that other companies and cultures operate with the same sorts of motivations and criteria of success as we do , despite the fact that Japanese companies , for instance , turn in a very low rate of profit compared to those in the United Kingdom , and indeed do not need to do so because of the low interest charges and ready availability of capital in their country . |
| 13 | Although the number of cases of infectious syphilis seen in genitourinary medicine clinics has fallen since 1981 , the rate of fall slowed in 1988 ( fig 1 ( bottom ) ) . |
| 14 | However , the composition of the rate of return differs for different firms . |
| 15 | Profitability , too , varies between the certain but perhaps unexciting rate of return paid by fixed interest government securities , to the more uncertain possibility of large gains to be made on equities . |
| 16 | Even with inflation as low as five per cent on average , the rate of return reported by individual companies may be substantially distorted . |
| 17 | The declining trend from the troubled days of the early 1980s has been reversed , and if the rate of increase continues into 1990 the next decade will look rather bleak . |
| 18 | The rate of increase slipped to 3 per cent during the period compared with 3.6pc in the three months to the end of January , the Labour Research Department said in a survey of more than 600 settlements . |
| 19 | The pessimistic view is evidenced by the fact that the rate of conviction stemming from reported rapes has declined by 44 per cent in the case of rape , 16 per cent in the case of sexual assault and 9 per cent in the case of incest . |
| 20 | Throughout the period the balance of payments had improved noticeably , the government 's deficit had been reduced by 1970 to only 15 per cent of current government revenue , investment in real terms was rising and the rate of inflation averaged between 25–30 per cent per annum . |
| 21 | The documents indicate that shareholders can look forward to annual rises above the rate of inflation ranging from 3.2 per cent in the case of Severn Trent to 5.5 per cent for Northumbrian , North West and Yorkshire . |
| 22 | ( c ) The domestic rate of inflation falls below that of other major trading countries . |
| 23 | So when the actual rate of inflation rises to 4 per cent in Fig. 6.4 , people continue to expect zero inflation for a while and only in the long-run do they revise their expectations upwards towards 4 per cent . |
| 24 | The rate of urbanization increased after 1868 , and by 1920 nearly one-third of Japan 's population lived in towns of over 10,000 people . |
| 25 | The WRI 's figure for 1988 was 3.6 per cent , with the US rate of growth amounting to 4.1 per cent . |
| 26 | That the rate of growth accelerated after 1945 is some measure of the impact of the Second World War ; but to the question of whether the institutional changes this embodied were enough to match the requirements of rapid economic growth , the answer is clearly no . |
| 27 | But in a society where the official rate of unemployment doubled between 1979 and 1981 , from 5.3 per cent to 10.4 per cent and reached over 3.5 million or nearly 15 per cent during 1986 , where the Government , in the name of the market , is committed to weakening the ability of workers to defend their jobs , where the Government , in its desire to break what it sees as the ‘ dependency culture ’ , has systematically set about dismantling the welfare provisions which protected the poorest and weakest in society , where the Government , as part of its programme to establish a new thrusting entrepreneurial society , has encouraged a widening of differentials in income and wealth , we would expect the societal tensions produced to be expressed in , among other things , rising levels of crime . |
| 28 | Thus in 1981–86 the South gained 580 000 people , twice the increase recorded in 1976–81 , while the rest of Britain saw its population fall by almost 200 000 , an increase in the rate of loss compared to 1976–81 and moving against the national trend ( table 8.2 ) . |
| 29 | The problem can be overcome in the case of any straight step function by evaluating the Fourier transform of the corresponding exponentially decaying step function and then finding its limit as the rate of decay goes to zero . |
| 30 | the rate of VAT applied to each product . |