Example sentences of "at [art] rate of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sow the seeds , which look like sweet peas , at the rate of about 1/2oz-sq yd . |
| 2 | Sow it from August to November at the rate of 1oz/sq yd . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | The waste arrives at the rate of up to seven tanker-loads every day — that is seven lorries passing thousands of doorsteps . |
| 6 | People are leaving Paris at the rate of some 20,000 a year , chased out by soaring property prices and the shortage of rental accommodation — especially of flats big enough for a family . |
| 7 | We saw awful conditions in Bouzoulouk , where , out of a population of 35,000 they are dying at the rate of 100 a day . |
| 8 | During 1938 and 1939 slum-dwellers were being rehoused at the rate of 1,000 a day . |
| 9 | Let us suppose that a Government , a party , observing that the rate of increase of the national income has been as high as 3 per cent in real terms over the last few years , were to decide to make plans which involve the growth of public expenditure at the rate of 2and1/2 ; per cent , so as to be a little within the recent happy experience . |
| 10 | Use all the Corrado 's ample performance and the lead-free fuel flows through the intakes at the rate of around 22mpg , and this shows little sign of improvement even when driven more gently . |
| 11 | Overall its exclusively lead-free diet was consumed at the rate of 10.2mpg , even with a thirsty catalyst as standard . |
| 12 | And yet these species are vanishing at the rate of one every half hour , before we can even identify and research them . |
| 13 | Donations were pouring into the appeals office in the basement of Great Ormond Street at the rate of £2 million a month . |
| 14 | Many calculated their wages not in the national currency , the dinar , but in deutschemarks at the rate of between 400 and 600 marks a month , three times the present average . |
| 15 | Keepin and Kats were responsible for a calculation which has been taken up and treated with biblical reverence by the anti-nuclear lobby : for nuclear power to displace coal from the energy mix in a high energy scenario 8000 large reactors would have to be brought on line worldwide at the rate of one every one-and-a-half days . |
| 16 | They contribute 14 per cent of the greenhouse effect and are increasing at the rate of 6 per cent a year . |
| 17 | Relief on the rest will be taken at the rate of 5% a year . |
| 18 | Hong Kong 's dollar has been yoked to America 's at the rate of 7.8 to 1 since 1983 . |
| 19 | Quietly , Shell invests in its businesses at the rate of some $10 billion a year — a level which Sir Peter Holmes , its chairman , says will not change , Gulf war or not . |
| 20 | In the absence of rain , try to water at the rate of 1–2 gallons per sq yd , twice a week . |
| 21 | With reports in wide circulation that she was amassing a multi-million fortune at the rate of £620,000 a month , Kylie was also able to indulge in her passion for shopping . |
| 22 | He promised to pay off his debt at the rate of 20 marks a year . |
| 23 | The clerks handing out ballot papers at your polling station yesterday were selected by the local electoral registration officer : in most instances , they were taking the day off from their town hall desk at the rate of £61.02 each . |
| 24 | ’ One has to balance these things carefully : they 're capable of erupting if churches are inflicted on them at the rate of more than , say , one every other day . |
| 25 | But the surprising interlude — the lava , pouring at the rate of a million tons a day since December from Europe 's highest and most active volcano , has not stopped but has simply stopped here — provided a rare example of nature doing the protecting . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | That was because there were over four million men being demobbed at the rate of 10,000 a day . |
| 28 | With 800–900 of Switzerland 's 2300 professors due to retire before the end of the decade , the Swiss have taken a leaf out of Britain 's book and set up a scheme for appointing ‘ new blood ’ assistant professors at the rate of 300 in each of the next two four-year planning periods . |
| 29 | At such times as it was expedient to run water from the Grand Union Canal into the Grand Junction Canal the passing of that water down from the top to the bottom pond , that is a fall of 56 feet and at the rate of say 2 locks per hour , would represent a gross force of 32 h.p. and this force could be utilized by means of a turbine or otherwise for providing power to work the lift . |
| 30 | Later , when the Board wanted to supply Upper Bolney Farm by crossing the course , water was conveyed to the greens as part of the wayleave deal at the rate of 10s. 0d. a green or £9 inclusive . |