Example sentences of "were [verb] at the rate of " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Aug. 2 the UOF published in Paris an appeal to non-governmental organizations to send aid to some 200,000 civilians in the north and south-west of Djibouti , who it claimed were dying at the rate of 100 a day due to the effects of drought and a government blockade of areas of rebel activity . |
| 2 | For a couple of years the low cliffs of unconsolidated coombe rock and brickearth were eroded at the rate of 3.5–6m ( 12–20 ft ) per year before they were boarded in and a new groyne system established . |
| 3 | By the time of Mrs Mandelbaum 's party , they were arriving at the rate of about fifty a month … |
| 4 | Koirala told parliament on March 9 that more than 20,000 Bhutanese refugees had arrived in Nepal since July 1991 and more were arriving at the rate of 200 a day . |
| 5 | The general public was to be able to use the royal posts on certain of the roads out of London ; there were to be fixed rates of postage ( to defray the cost of salaried postmasters ) ; and horse posts ( which were to travel at the rate of 120 miles in twenty-four hours ) were substituted for foot posts ( which travelled at the rate of 16 or 18 miles a day ) . |
| 6 | Though officially designated European Architectural Heritage Year , listed buildings , we calculated , were disappearing at the rate of one a day . |