Example sentences of "[verb] at the rate " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | There are three Wraithwisps for each adventurer , and they appear at the rate of four per round . |
| 3 | ‘ Did you know ’ , Matilda said suddenly , ‘ that the heart of a mouse beats at the rate of six hundred and fifty times a minute ? ’ |
| 4 | That was particularly true now that land values were no longer inflating at the rate of the last decade or so . |
| 5 | We saw awful conditions in Bouzoulouk , where , out of a population of 35,000 they are dying at the rate of 100 a day . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Earlier this month , people were reported to be dying at the rate of 30 a day from hunger and the effects of Serb shelling . |
| 8 | At one point earlier this month townspeople were reported to be dying at the rate of 30 a day from shellfire and starvation . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The benefits paid from the fund are taxed at the rate appropriate to the pensioner 's circumstances . |
| 13 | During the period 1990-90 , urban areas expanded at the rate of 11,000 ha per year . |
| 14 | Right , let's move on to the last session , where we 're going to be looking at the rate books . |
| 15 | The waste arrives at the rate of up to seven tanker-loads every day — that is seven lorries passing thousands of doorsteps . |
| 16 | Lakewood guitars are designed by one Martin Seeliger , and they 're built at the rate of about twenty-five per week in a town called Geissen in Germany , an hour or so up the autobahn from Frankfurt . |
| 17 | The tax would be levied at the rate of the equivalent of US$3 per barrel of oil in 1993 , rising by $1 a year to a maximum of $10 per barrel in 2000 — the EC target date for the stabilization of carbon dioxide emissions at 1990 levels . |
| 18 | The tax will be levied at the rate of $3 per barrel of oil equivalent in 1993 , rising by $1 a year to a maximum of $10 per barrel in 2000 — the EC target date for the stabilization of carbon dioxide emissions at 1990 levels . |
| 19 | The tax will be levied at the rate of 25.7 cents per million British thermal units ( BTUs ) on heating fuels and at 59.9 cents per million BTUs for transport oil . |
| 20 | By the weekend , around 50 flights will have been made at the rate of one every 2 hours and the deployment will be complete . |
| 21 | When you look at the rate book , a single female , escalating , with the a sum assured for life , will come to nineteen , seven two three . |
| 22 | Eventual payment was promised at the rate of 5Op per deal , but this proved pie in the sky . |
| 23 | Today it is drawn at the rate of 10 t pa . |
| 24 | He points out that once fashionable products like royal jelly are now declining at the rate of 40% a year . |
| 25 | And with beer drinking declining at the rate of 10 per cent in the South East and five per cent in the North , breweries have realised they must cut prices . |
| 26 | The population is declining at the rate of 7 per cent a year . |
| 27 | But the surprising interlude — the lava , pouring at the rate of a million tons a day since December from Europe 's highest and most active volcano , has not stopped but has simply stopped here — provided a rare example of nature doing the protecting . |
| 28 | They will emerge at the rate of one per round . |
| 29 | Right , erm , ah , I think the best thing we can do is to look at the rate book for this question because you may have remembered it from er , you may not . |
| 30 | Mr Lamont forecasts that the economy will be growing at the rate of three per cent per year in 12 months ' time ; he would have carried more conviction , if he had not made the same ‘ jam tomorrow ’ forecast a year ago . |