Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] rate " in BNC.
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| 1 | A perceived improvement in the foreign exchange climate led on Feb. 27 , 1990 , to the re-establishment of a unified dinar rate against the dollar . |
| 2 | It provided for ( i ) free movement of goods , services and labour ; ( ii ) a common monetary system and central banking system ; ( iii ) no federal taxation but a unified tax rate for taxes common to all republics ; ( iv ) agreed limits to republics ' budget deficits and a community budget which would not be allowed to have a deficit ; and ( v ) price reform , with controlled prices for key goods and services . |
| 3 | Er there 's another book which is similar to the other one in the sense that it made up of some papers by Phillips , Steel and Tants and that has some information about Mexicano in it , er and you find that some people er were giving Mexican language a low a low prestige rate whereas other group in the community were doing the opposite and giving a high prestige rate or certainly a less low one , er in favour of spanish a lot of the Because it was in I think it 's in South America I guess , er you find that a lot of the locals were switching to spanish because it was coming the dominant language er because of societal pressures and constraints and so on . |
| 4 | Conversely , a low verification rate ( for example , every two years ) will result in : |
| 5 | The government may do this in order to help exporters , since a low exchange rate will make exports cheaper for foreigners to buy . |
| 6 | Ervin and Washburn ( 1981 ) have shown that even with very favourable combinations of a low discount rate , a long planning period and a high level of individual cost sharing , private incentives are very seldom sufficient for the individual farmer . |
| 7 | Treatment has a low success rate . |
| 8 | This aided the operation of the fixed exchange rate system and helped to maintain a low inflation rate in the international economy . |
| 9 | Past questionnaire research on the police has suffered from a low response rate ( for example , Policy Studies Institute 1983a ) . |
| 10 | A low response rate is serious particularly if there is reason to suspect that persons likely to give particular kinds of answers might be less or more likely to respond than others . |
| 11 | But no country has yet managed to achieve a low birth rate while infant deaths rates remain high . |
| 12 | In opposing the arguments marshalled by the anti-divorce groups , the pro-divorce group argued that , despite the existence of divorce legislation in Northern Ireland , there was still a low divorce rate . |
| 13 | For South Africa 's economic problems — high unemployment , a low growth rate , and a crippling shortage of skills — will not miraculously vanish when apartheid goes . |
| 14 | You can grow plants with u/g filters , if you allow them to root well before turning the filter on , and then use a low turnover rate . |
| 15 | Under the scheme , a building society would lend money to a housing association at a low interest rate to buy homes , whose former owners would become tenants of the association . |
| 16 | Resist the temptation to deposit money in currencies with a high interest rate , or borrow in currencies with a low interest rate , if there is no matching underlying cash flow in that currency . |
| 17 | If extensive and continuing bleeding precludes this , balloon tamponade should be considered , as this is highly effective and has a low complication rate in experienced hands . |
| 18 | In several pilot studies , we obtained H pylori eradication with a low complication rate in approximately 60–80% of patients treated with an omeprazole modified monoantibiotic therapy with amoxicillin . |
| 19 | In contrast , petty theft has a very low rate of reporting to the police , and a low detection rate . |
| 20 | A low failure rate makes for an attractive proposition |
| 21 | Getting over H2 is very much our concern , and trials to ensure that teachers learning to ‘ drive the unit ’ have a low failure rate are essential , and quite possible . |
| 22 | Continued government support for the scheme is not backed by the findings , however ( Mair and Nee , 1990 ) , which showed a low take-up rate by the courts matched by a high failure rate on the part of defendants ( Muncie , 1990 ; Nellis , 1991 ) . |
| 23 | Conversely a high stepping rate limit leads to a low acceleration rate [ Fig. 8.8(b) ] . |
| 24 | Instead , he offered a pair of trust-mes : ‘ I favour a strong exchange rate … |
| 25 | Several puzzles remain , however , most notably in understanding the way in which expectations are formed and in the difficulty in econometric research of capturing a strong interest rate effect . |
| 26 | Unemployment in west Germany will rise from 1.69m to 1.78m and in east Germany from 913,000 to 1.35m , giving a total unemployment rate of 8.1 p.c . |
| 27 | A weak exchange rate transmits inflation , and the Chancellor has made it abundantly clear his present priority is to get inflation down . |
| 28 | Using the data in the table , an argument is advanced that , whereas 21 per cent of working families had a short-term replacement rate of up to 60 per cent of their normal earnings in 1978 , by 1985 — 6 this had risen to about 44 per cent of families . |
| 29 | Two associated pneumatic grain elevators with a combined discharge rate of 400 tons per hour were completed soon after . |
| 30 | An overview of over 500 patients treated subsequently shows an overall response rate with FAM of 33% with a complete response rate of <3% . |