Example sentences of "[vb pp] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The benefits paid from the fund are taxed at the rate appropriate to the pensioner 's circumstances . |
| 5 | During the period 1990-90 , urban areas expanded at the rate of 11,000 ha per year . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | By the weekend , around 50 flights will have been made at the rate of one every 2 hours and the deployment will be complete . |
| 11 | Eventual payment was promised at the rate of 5Op per deal , but this proved pie in the sky . |
| 12 | Today it is drawn at the rate of 10 t pa . |
| 13 | During the year , pesticides whose use is banned in the US were being exported at the rate of 15 tons a day . |
| 14 | In the event that the Director is required to provide his services in excess of five days after 22 December 1989 , then it is agreed that he shall be reimbursed at the rate of £200 per diem . |
| 15 | Foreign currency transactions of individual companies are translated at the rates ruling when they occurred . |
| 16 | Foreign currency monetary assets and liabilities are translated at the rates ruling at the balance sheet dates . |
| 17 | The books have been stolen at the rate of twenty or thirty a day . |
| 18 | The number of new businesses has increased at the rate of almost 90 per day for every day since 1979 . |
| 19 | That was because there were over four million men being demobbed at the rate of 10,000 a day . |
| 20 | Over £40,000 , all deals are charged at the rate of 0.25% ; maximum commission is £250 . |
| 21 | Interest will be charged at the rate of 1 per cent above the Bank base rate prevailing for the relevant period . |
| 22 | During 1938 and 1939 slum-dwellers were being rehoused at the rate of 1,000 a day . |
| 23 | Bonemeal is a good base which lasts several years , and can be spread at the rate of about 180–240 g per sq m ( 6–8 oz per sq yd ) , and garden compost into which wood ashes have been mixed is particularly helpful on such soils . |
| 24 | The Flower Fairies Year will be issued at the rate of one plate every other month . |
| 25 | Class 321 units continued to be delivered at the rate of two a week , and on the Isle of Wight ‘ new ’ 1938-built former London Underground trains began to be introduced to replace coaches dating from 1923 . |
| 26 | But four main factors are singled out by Chris Green for the currently greatly improved outlook : the record investment currently being made , at the end of 1989 amounting to an astonishing million pounds a day ; the success of the Networker train whose carriages in 1989 were being delivered at the rate of one a day ; the enormous level of London station development both enhancing the environment ( who at the start of the 1980s would have thought of treating a terminus as a shopping precinct ? ) and producing revenue on the grand scale ; and the steady introduction of Integrated Electronic Control Centres ( discussed in detail in the signalling chapter ) . |
| 27 | Relief on the rest will be taken at the rate of 5% a year . |
| 28 | FOOTNOTE : If it 's any comfort to Mel , his medic told us the toes of windscreen pirates get crushed at the rate of ONE A WEEK on the busy A4 London to Bath road . |
| 29 | where loss , misdelivery or damage , however sustained , is in respect of the whole of the Consignment , to a sum calculated at the rate of £800 per tonne on either the gross weight of the Consignment or , where applicable , the tonnage computed in accordance with Condition 8(2) ( a ) or ( b ) hereof : |
| 30 | ( 2 ) Throughout your occupation you will pay rent calculated at the rate of £ per annum payable on demand in advance ( but periodic demands shall not convert this tenancy into a periodic tenancy ) . |