Example sentences of "[prep] the same rate " in BNC.

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1 Examination of the location of the cDNA by autoradiography illustrated that a difference in migration between uncomplexed cDNA ( lane 2 as control ) and the cDNA:RNA complex , which migrates at about the same rate as uncomplexed RNA , could be distinguished .
2 But nearly all its distinctive features may be exhibited in a place where population and wealth are both growing , provided they are growing at about the same rate , and there is no scarcity of land : and provided also the methods of production and the conditions of trade change but little ; and above all , where the character of man himself is a constant quantity .
3 The south-east of England , for example , is sinking by about the same rate as the water is rising — about 15 cm a century .
4 At present the ice sheet is believed to be replenished by snow fall at about the same rate as ice melts or is lost into the sea .
5 A staffer on the same rate of pay but on assignment in the Third World and with five children being educated in Geneva ‘ compliments of the honeypot ’ , receives more than the basic pay of any head of state .
6 Well I ai n't had a on the same rate as me ! blue they should have the same , like mine !
7 Many professionals within the Lloyd 's market welcome the current crop of departures as there is an excess of financial capacity within the market at a time when business is not growing at the same rate as the available capacity .
8 Interestingly , not all rhythms develop at the same rate .
9 Note that if you take Kugelbaum 's football and let all the pentagons expand at the same rate and at the expense of the Ts until every T has shrunk to a point you will be left with a regular dodecahedron , having 12 pentagonal faces .
10 ‘ Otherwise , if they keep coming in at the same rate , Hong Kong will be totally swamped and will not be able to cope .
11 Even if this were politically possible , which it is not , petrol taxes punish the rural lunch-time driver at the same rate as the urban peak-time driver , when the latter causes far more harm .
12 Suddenly Star Eye were somewhere where things happened , time was strictly portioned and progressed at the same rate .
13 It came as no surprise to mystics that DNA is found to function like a right handed helix in which each tread is of the same size and turns at the same rate of 36° per tread .
14 Sales rose 11 p.c. to £314m in 1991 and profits grew at the same rate , to £13.4m before taxation .
15 And pensions have not been going up at the same rate as the cost of living .
16 For instance , the single person 's National Insurance retirement pension in 1990 is worth 26 per cent more than unemployment benefit , whereas back in 1972 they were paid at the same rate and had been for most of the period since 1948 .
17 This will be the case if , for example , you are asked to perform the same job at the same rate of pay but at a different office or factory and the move is catered for by a mobility clause in your contract .
18 More disposals are likely in 1992 , although not at the same rate as last year .
19 Levels of β-thromboglobulin and platelet factor 4 were highly significantly correlated both in control subjects and diabetic patients , confirming that these two proteins are released from the same platelet pool and presumably at the same rate .
20 Where the snout , or end , of a glacier stayed in one place for many years — which was when the ice was advancing at the same rate as it was melting — more and more boulder clay was dumped at the glacier snout .
21 No two people age at the same rate or in the same way .
22 They were usually billed as the star attraction so John obviously made a good profit out of them but they were still paid at the same rate as all his juveniles , five shillings a week .
23 I mean , surely the English hens were laying at the same rate as they did in peacetime ?
24 If you become unemployed , you draw unemployment benefit at the same rate as retirement pension , but there is no increment for those weeks .
25 During selection with malathion and IBP , resistance gene frequency of a stock of Culex quinquefasciatus decreased at the same rate as untreated mosquitoes , whereas with malathion alone the resistance gene frequency increased fourfold in three generations .
26 In a organ size is increasing roughly at the same rate as body size : the slope of the continuous line thus is about 1 , which denotes isometry , rather than allometry .
27 For example , although a curie of any radioactive element disintegrates at the same rate as I gram of natural radium ( as found in sea-water ) there is no connection between this and the relative toxicity of the element as compared to radium .
28 And as it dissolves , it releases at the same rate any compounds mixed in with it .
29 A girl who is very tall for her age may fear that she will go on growing at the same rate indefinitely , while a boy who is shorter than his mates of the same age may be afraid that he will be permanently undersized .
30 Therefore : ‘ If this replacement proceeds smoothly and at the same rate as the disappearance , we have a case of simple reproduction , which corresponds to a situation in which the productive social labour remains uniform , with the productive forces unchanging . ’
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