Example sentences of "[adv] at a rate " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sole observation is indirect ; the orbital period of the binary pulsar 1913 + 16 is measured to be slowing down at a rate which agrees well with that expected if the system is emitting gravitational radiation . |
| 2 | Fairbanks found that when sea level first began to rise as the ice sheets melted , 17,000 years ago , it did so at a rate of about 4mm per year . |
| 3 | It meets the River Lyon and the rivers pour in at a rate of 370 cubic metres a second . |
| 4 | During April 1856 , after a period when , it seems , no head dresser was overseeing , his son John took over at a rate of about £5 : 4s. : 0d. , which figure was apparently dependent upon the weather . |
| 5 | This may have embarrassed Loughborough 's Richard Wareham , the tight-head who played in the England Under-21 front row when they hammered Romania in Bucharest last May , and the youngsters continued to go backwards at a rate of knots in tight and loose . |
| 6 | This is occurring spontaneously , but not at a rate which significantly affects the dense clusters further north . |
| 7 | I suppose if he jibbed at five hundred he 'd hardly part with four thousand , not at a rate of interest we could afford . |
| 8 | These results are important for plate tectonic theory because they show that the Earth is not currently expanding as has been suggested by a small minority of earth scientists , at least not at a rate which is significant compared with rates of plate motion . |
| 9 | Unlike most of its competitors , the firm has tended to inspire loyalty on the part of its consultants — who , since Stuart sold out in the 1970s , may enjoy a share in the equity — and has achieved a remarkable stability of gradually improved performance , still at a rate of 35% per year . |
| 10 | During the period 80 to SOMaBP it drifted rapidly at a rate of between 100 and 180 mm a- 1 . |
| 11 | The patient was asked to breathe deeply at a rate of six breaths/minute , the inspiration lasting for four seconds , the expiration for six seconds . |
| 12 | The Allies then presented Germany with a bill for US & dollar 32 billion to be paid off at a rate of & dollar 500 million dollars per year . |
| 13 | Despite this apparent discrepancy in cessation rates , it would appear that women give up at a rate very similar to men 's : women almost exclusively smoke ( and therefore give up ) cigarettes , whilst men sometimes switch from cigarettes to a pipe or cigars [ 2 ] . |
| 14 | During this first period ( up to 1750 ) of relatively slow and uneven growth , trusts were set up at a rate of only eight a year and were concentrated largely around London , radiating especially to the north and west and into the Midlands . |
| 15 | Pitch , of course , gets progressively softer as it is heated , and similarly , since the rocks of the mantle are also at high temperatures — the temperature in the earth increases downwards at a rate of about 30 degrees C per kilometre — they can also be thought of as being rather ‘ soft ’ . |
| 16 | Here the drill rig , which after numerous delays had only recently arrived from the mining camps of Northern Quebec , was boring downwards at a rate of about 30 m per day . |
| 17 | There are two important cut-off points ; at a rate of above 10 ventricular ectopic beats per hour the mortality increases steeply to above 20% and plateaus out at a rate of 30 per hour associated with a 1-year mortality of 30% . |
| 18 | We have setpiece debates on the European Community budget — we had one in only 90 minutes last week , which worked out at a rate of about half a billion pounds per minute of our debate . |
| 19 | The adjectives were read out at a rate of one every three seconds . |
| 20 | A homogeneous population will eventually grow at a steady rate r , which is given by the Euler-Lotka equation , In an asexual population , or a population of sexually reproducing haploids that vary only at a single locus , the outcome of natural selection depends simply on the long-term growth rates associated with each genotype , in the absence of density- or frequency-dependent interactions , each genotype will eventually grow exponentially at a rate that depends on its own life history , given by equation ( 1 ) . |
| 21 | The contrast is that these Pacific rim countries are investing in tomorrow at a rate of knots . |
| 22 | The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere , rising today at a rate of about 1 part per million per year , and standing at around 335 ppm , plays an important role in determining the surface temperature of the Earth , because the gas traps infrared radiation . |
| 23 | This incapacitates them temporarily ; whilst imprisoned they can not victimize the public , although they do continue to victimize other prisoners , sometimes at a rate that exceeds community crime levels . |
| 24 | Virgin Group Plc is planning to enter the mass-market UK personal computer business via a computer supplies company , Virgin Euromagnetics Ltd that it has owned for two years , the Financial Times reports : £12m-a-year Virgin Euromagnetics packages supplies such as floppy disks , which are sold in Virgin stores , and has designed an 80486 machine that is to be built under contract for Virgin in the UK , initially at a rate of around 3,000 a month ; the paper says that the machine may be bundled with a laser printer for about £1,200 , and the plan is to launch in September . |
| 25 | The fault 's western side is moving inexorably northward at a rate of five cm a year and should be part of Alaska in about 50 million years . |
| 26 | It was observed , and this was quite unexpected , that the A-measure also increased with radiometer reading , and indeed at a rate only slightly less than the I-measure . |
| 27 | It was obvious that oceanic crust must be continually destroyed somewhere at a rate comparable with that of its creation at the oceanic ridges in order to maintain a balance . |
| 28 | Next , cover the mesh with a layer of coral sand , again at a rate of 10 lb per square foot . |
| 29 | To prevent acidosis due to the operative trauma an infusion of a glucose-bicarbonate solution ( see below ) was given intra-arterially at a rate of 0.03 ml.min - 1 . |