Example sentences of "[adv prt] at [art] 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 | It meets the River Lyon and the rivers pour in at a rate of 370 cubic metres a second . |
| 3 | Each time you fill the bath , the water flows in at the rate of 15 litres per minute through the cold tap and 12 litres per minute through the hot tap ( when they are fully turned on ) . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | If the world 's 1984 stockpile of nuclear weapons were compressed into bombs of the size dropped on Hiroshima , it would take 4,600 years to go through them all if they were let off at the rate of one a day . |
| 7 | Although the amount of his fine was fixed at 2,000 marks as early as October 1292 , he remained in prison in the Tower and later in Winchester Castle till 1294 , when his release was obtained in return for a promise by Henry and his sureties to pay the fine off at the rate of 300 marks a year . |
| 8 | 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 ] . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ The C & D category societies ( the smallest ) have picked up a lot of savings business by offering high interest rates , but that money has to be lent out and the sort of mortgage business they have been picking up at the rates they charge looks very doubtful to me . |
| 11 | 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% . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The adjectives were read out at a rate of one every three seconds . |
| 14 | The sediment at the bottom of the sea permits nuclear waste to leak out at the rate of 1 metre per 10000 years not 10 years as appeared in last week 's article ( Technology , 17 February , p 442 ) . |
| 15 | Nitrates should be in single figures and water changes should be carried out at the rate of 20% each week for the time being . |
| 16 | The ECOTEC-V6 engine will be churned out at the rate of 135,000 a year when the plant is on full stream . |