Example sentences of "[vb -s] at the rate " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Did you know ’ , Matilda said suddenly , ‘ that the heart of a mouse beats at the rate of six hundred and fifty times a minute ? ’ |
| 2 | The waste arrives at the rate of up to seven tanker-loads every day — that is seven lorries passing thousands of doorsteps . |
| 3 | When church statistics paint a picture of general decline , a movement which grows at the rate of two congregations each week is a striking feature . |
| 4 | The Araceae family also includes the world 's most troublesome weed — the water-lettuce , which grows at the rate of one tonne per acre per day in the tropics and is an expensive hazard . |
| 5 | He smiles at the rate of two slight elevations of the edges of the lips every half hour . |
| 6 | That generation now dies at the rate of 150,000 people a year which makes coronary artery disease Britain 's number 1 illness ; a generation that has died of ignorance , indifference and arrogance . |
| 7 | The extra gravitational attraction of such a large number of black holes could explain why our galaxy rotates at the rate it does : the mass of the visible stars is insufficient to account for this . |