Example sentences of "[verb] at [art] rate " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | For example , in a particular year a given region has x million inhabitants and the population is expected to increase at a rate of 2% per year . |
| 2 | Each night the Falcons depart from over 130 major market areas , jetting packages to a computerised sorting centre at Memphis , where they are sorted at the rate of 10,000 per hour . |
| 3 | On the other hand , if the initial state is one of excess supply money-wages will fall at a rate . |
| 4 | But in 1983–7 the real ( volume ) increase in funds first fell to zero , then fell absolutely , then rose at a rate lower than 1 per cent — that is less than the increasing trend to an ageing population required to sustain standards ( Kings Fund Institute , 1988 ; Owens and Glennerster , 1990 ) . |
| 5 | In a study undertaken over a two-week period , Tom Tadecki , research director of the International Coalition Against Violent Entertainment , found that more than 33 per cent of its programmes involved some form of aggression , with violent acts occurring at a rate of 10 per hour . |
| 6 | The figures for BBC 1 and BBC 2 were 10 per cent , with violent acts occurring at a rate of 2.5 per hour on BBC 1 , and two on BBC 2 . |
| 7 | Lown and Wolf classified ventricular extrasystoles occurring at a rate of less than one per minute as isolated and of little prognostic significance , whereas those occurring at a rate of more than one per minute were more indicative of an unfavourable prognosis . |
| 8 | Lown and Wolf classified ventricular extrasystoles occurring at a rate of less than one per minute as isolated and of little prognostic significance , whereas those occurring at a rate of more than one per minute were more indicative of an unfavourable prognosis . |
| 9 | Other electrocardiographic abnormalities , in addition to ventricular extrasystoles occurring at a rate of more than 1/min , regarded as of ‘ sinister ’ importance — that is , markers of potentially serious complications are , ST segment increase or depression of more than 1 mm , supraventricular tachycardia ( three or more consecutive supraventricular extrasystoles at a rate of more than 130/min ) , second or third degree heart block , ventricular bigemini or trigemini , ventricular tachycardia , ventricular fibrillation or asystole . |
| 10 | There are three Wraithwisps for each adventurer , and they appear at the rate of four per round . |
| 11 | ‘ Did you know ’ , Matilda said suddenly , ‘ that the heart of a mouse beats at the rate of six hundred and fifty times a minute ? ’ |
| 12 | That was particularly true now that land values were no longer inflating at the rate of the last decade or so . |
| 13 | Subjects were asked to make rhyme judgments about consonants appearing at a rate of one per second . |
| 14 | Credit balances will earn you interest at a rate quoted in all our branches . |
| 15 | Differences in adult mortality reach a peak for the 35–44 year age group , with Aboriginal men dying at a rate more than 11 times that of the total male population . |
| 16 | The UN protection force , Unprofor , and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees had called for an air corridor after reports that refugees in Srebrenica were dying at a rate of 20 a day from exposure and starvation . |
| 17 | We saw awful conditions in Bouzoulouk , where , out of a population of 35,000 they are dying at the rate of 100 a day . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Earlier this month , people were reported to be dying at the rate of 30 a day from hunger and the effects of Serb shelling . |
| 20 | At one point earlier this month townspeople were reported to be dying at the rate of 30 a day from shellfire and starvation . |
| 21 | Restrictive practices , which Clasper had fought so hard to introduce , were being discarded at a rate of knots in the quest to increase efficiency , output and earnings . |
| 22 | Then , where δ is the fraction so that the Goldbach–Rehage formula above becomes or This can be written in terms of , the relaxation time at the glass temperature , since where is a shift factor and Hence or , if the material is being heated or cooled at a rate we have where is the decrement of the expansion coefficient of the glass and , as before . |
| 23 | Even if the Sun is shrinking at a rate of merely 0–01 per cent per century it would totally disappear in a million years ; and it would have been twice its present size a million years ago . |
| 24 | The headlines had already been written when Eddy and Boornazian suggested that the Sun was shrinking at a rate of 0.1 per century . |
| 25 | The number of workers on the land has been shrinking at the rate of nearly 20000 per year , although this has not occurred in a completely uniform fashion . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Lichenologists have estimated that crustose lichens in Alaska and Lappland grow at a rate of 3–4mm/100 years , which would make lichens there of 480 mm diameter at least 9000 years old . |
| 28 | After two control periods of one hour each , during which water was absorbed at a rate of 104 ( 14 ) ( mean ( SEM ) , n=15 ) and 94 ( 15 ) ml/30 cm/h , respectively , three different doses of cholera toxin ( 6.25 µg , 12.5 µg , 25 µg ) were administered by bolus into the lumen of the jejunum . |
| 29 | If insects are being named at the rate of about 7,250 species a year and synonymized at about 1,450 a year , then these rates are within our capacity for entry into master inventories . |
| 30 | In addition , an NHS general practitioner now prescribes at a rate of £100000 a year , and it is likely that referrals and use of other hospital services may amount to £200000 a year — these add up to £12m over 40 years . |