Example sentences of "[to-vb] at [art] rate " in BNC.
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| 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 | It is clear that Jupiter radiates energy to space at a rate somewhere between 1½ and 2½ times the rate at which it absorbs energy from the Sun . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The intention was to reduce it to that rate which would constrain aggregate demand to grow at a rate which could be met by increases in real output . |
| 5 | A librarian whose shelves are full is therefore obliged to weed at a rate which is precisely equal to that of his new accessions . |
| 6 | Engineers have recently scaled up the process to separate at a rate of a few milligrams per hour . |
| 7 | Consequently there is a change in excitation and the motor starts to accelerate at a rate dictated by the load parameters . |
| 8 | The volume of data being created is continuing to explode at a rate seemingly far in excess of what a diminishing workforce ought to be able to produce . |
| 9 | Erm she would ask that and fine that impose today er , could be paid by her at the rate of five pounds per week erm , she er runs a car her invalidity income amounts to forty six pounds fifteen pence per week and she also receives a super annuation payment from her former employers Goldeson 's Hospital at the rate of a hundred and three pounds per month but she and her husband do have to er to run the home and er , and run the house er , run run the car and she would ask that she 'll be allowed to pay at the rate of five pound per week . |
| 10 | Given this evaporation rate and the smaller inflows into the sea , the level is continuing to drop at a rate of about 0.5 m a year . |
| 11 | In the very early stages the white hole appears to expand at a rate several times the speed of light , as I explain in an article written with R. C. Kapoor in Astrophysics and Space Sciences ( vol 53 , p 155 ) . |
| 12 | It was a route she chose originally because she did not have enough capital to expand at the rate business demanded . |
| 13 | Furphy , whose recent past included a spell in the United States , ( where a high flyer leisure executive delivered the ‘ amazing ’ one liner , which has stuck in his mind to this day ) is the hands on marketing man whose job it is to oversee the vast membership growth that is enabling Lloyd to expand at the rate of two clubs per year . |
| 14 | When such a clear target has been voiced and accepted , ideas for units begin to flow at a rate which the technology and the programmer find difficult to cope with . |
| 15 | Unbelievably , M4 was allowed to rise at a rate of 17.7 per cent in the most recent six-month period . |
| 16 | In December 1987 the cost-of-living index was 170 per cent above its level in December of the previous year , and even under the ‘ price freeze ’ of the first few months of 1988 , prices continued to rise at a rate equivalent to an annual rate of about 100 per cent . |
| 17 | So , an ‘ epidemic ’ of heroin use occurs when incidence rises ( above the normal , endemic level of use ) and continues to rise at a rate higher than the outcidence rate . |
| 18 | It should also be noted that in determining the amount of income available up to the end of any year one looks at the aggregate amount of the income arising under the settlement in that year and in any previous year which has not been distributed and one deducts an amount equal to tax at the rate applicable to trusts on the aggregate amount of income , arising under the settlement in the year of payment and any previous year , which has not been distributed . |
| 19 | The general public was to be able to use the royal posts on certain of the roads out of London ; there were to be fixed rates of postage ( to defray the cost of salaried postmasters ) ; and horse posts ( which were to travel at the rate of 120 miles in twenty-four hours ) were substituted for foot posts ( which travelled at the rate of 16 or 18 miles a day ) . |
| 20 | In the absence of rain , try to water at the rate of 1–2 gallons per sq yd , twice a week . |