Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [art] rate " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you decided that you 're really only interested in long priced horses because you wanted win a large sum of money , so you only started looking at horses that were offered at fifty to one or longer odds than that , then if you look at the statistics then you 'll find that the rate of return on such bets is even lower than the rate of return that we 've quoted on football pools , but on the other hand if you look at horses which are offered , say , at odds-on or at very low odds , evens , two to one and things like that , then the rate of return is pretty close to a hundred per cent of your money . |
| 2 | Investment is profitable if the rate of return exceeds the interest rate . |
| 3 | In tundra habitats , it has been shown that lemmings can eat up to 50 per cent of available vegetation and destroy a lot more during peak years , and as a result of lack of food the rate of decline of lemming populations can be as rapid as the rate of increase ( Batzli , 1975 ) . |
| 4 | But I think you 're right on temporary annuities , they are good if the rate 's good . |
| 5 | Nearly 20 million callers and five million firms will benefit — as long as the rate of inflation does not rise to above 7.5 per cent . |
| 6 | People retiring now are likely to have an occupational pension on top of their state pension and the average income of pensioners rose by 31% more than the rate of inflation between 1979 and 1987 . |
| 7 | abolished the power of local councils to shift the burden of taxation on to local business , for the first time limiting the overall rise in business rates to no more than the rate of inflation ; |
| 8 | As we announced in the Budget , no one 's Uniform Business rate will go up this year by more than the rate of inflation — 4.1 per cent . |
| 9 | The positive K factor was intended to allow water prices to rise by more than the rate of inflation , in order to help finance a £18.65 billion investment programme over ten years . |
| 10 | However , even if the price of the house rises by more than the rate of inflation ( ie a real capital gain has been made ) capital gains tax ( CGT ) is not levied . |
| 11 | It is set annually by the Government and can not rise by more than the rate of inflation . |
| 12 | Do you think your collection will increase in value by more than the rate of inflation in the foreseeable future ? |
| 13 | This year the increase in grant to the Sports Council is 4.4 per cent. , which is more than the rate of inflation and equivalent year on year to what we have pledged ourselves to provide . |
| 14 | It is well known to every hon. Member that under the old system , councils could put up rates by more than the rate of inflation . |
| 15 | Public spending has to be at the level the taxpayer can afford , but through our prudent management , we are able to increase spending for 1992-93 by more than the rate of inflation , allowing significant improvements in health , education , law and order , transport and the environment , amongst others . |
| 16 | Water rates will also increase by more than the rate of inflation . |
| 17 | I occurs if there is an increase in the organic composition of capital at a rate which is faster than the rate of growth of the volume of production . |
| 18 | Other price rises will be less than the rate of inflation . |
| 19 | ‘ He knows he could not find an independent panel anywhere in Britain which would accept it is right to make an offer which is less than the rate of inflation to people who work in a service which is already underpaid and understaffed . ’ |
| 20 | It is important to remember , therefore , when comparing returns on short-term instruments that a rate of discount will always be slightly less than the rate of interest giving the corresponding reward . |
| 21 | That 's why I 'm submitting a budget that holds the growth in spending to less than the rate of inflation . |
| 22 | Groundwater flows down-slope towards the river channel , but the rate of groundwater flow is less than the rate of throughflow or of overland flow . |
| 23 | So the rate of growth of employment was much less than the rate of accumulation ( figure 11.3 ) . |
| 24 | Now interest rates have come down , the latest situation is that for a high rate tax payer an instant access bank account pays less than the rate of inflation . |
| 25 | No , but they were n't for them , cos they , does n't really matter , they 've got so much pocket out of gas But the Gas is erm , make them increase prices at five per cent less than the rate of inflation that way . |
| 26 | Making comparisons of crude death rates across time or between populations is problematic as the rate is obviously influenced by the age composition of populations : a population with a large component of older people will illustrate a higher crude death rate than a population of the same size including a lot of younger people . |
| 27 | Finally , the Yugoslav government held up payment to the construction enterprises for several more months , and then paid them in dinars at the current rate of exchange , which was considerably worse than the rate applicable at the time when payment was originally due . |
| 28 | Even in times of rapid inflation , interest rates are generally so much higher than the rate of price inflation that saving up to buy later normally works out better value for money . |
| 29 | So far as I am aware , we have no evidence , for example , to show whether male unemployment which in some areas has been higher than the rate for females , has enabled tending tasks of old relatives to be taken on by men who remain at home . |
| 30 | The figure of 22.8% of claims at the low rate in the sample is higher than the rate for Berkshire as a whole ( 14.8% ) in the same period because the largest practice in the sample used a deputy for 53% of its night visits . |