Example sentences of "at the [adj] rate " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later agreements fixed tariffs for foreign goods coming into Japan at the low rate of 5 percent ad valorem ; and a ‘ most-favoured-nation ’ clause extended to each country new rights secured by any other . |
| 2 | The figure of 22.8% of claims at the low rate in the sample is higher than the rate for Berkshire as a whole ( 14.8% ) in the same period because the largest practice in the sample used a deputy for 53% of its night visits . |
| 3 | WOMEN are now becoming infected with the HIV virus at the worldwide rate of two a minute as the AIDS epidemic gathers pace , an international expert claimed today . |
| 4 | At the present rate of referral , numbers are more than set to double during the year . |
| 5 | * At the present rate of destruction many countries whose only real asset is the forest may have none at all by the year 2,000 . |
| 6 | If sport carries on combining with showbiz at the present rate , this dingy logic will eventually be hard to resist . |
| 7 | Mortgage interest tax relief will continue at the present rate . |
| 8 | If she was well enough to formulate a view on the question - and at the present rate of progress it looked as if she might be — Elinor would take a dim view of the poisoning of Tibbles . |
| 9 | How many extra people are there in Britain each year , at the present rate of natural increase ? 56 000 000 × 3 ÷ 1000 = … ? |
| 10 | And even an enthusiast like her admits that the growth in converts to her cause can not continue at the present rate . |
| 11 | Peter Daley of Waste Management International has pointed out in a lecture to Britain 's Royal Academy of Engineering that landfills , at the present rate of waste generation in Europe , use about two square metres of land per person per century . |
| 12 | Well here 's news for IBM — at the present rate , it will have lost 100% of its mainframe sales in five years , almost all of them not to competing IBM products but to competing companies . |
| 13 | It may increase slightly but if fertility continues to decline at the present rate that is unlikely . |
| 14 | There is festering resentment in dark green quarters over what is seen as Julia 's reluctance to state baldly that there is no such thing as a green product , or that continued consumption at the present rate can only lead to us all dying in some particularly horrible way . |
| 15 | If Dreadnought went on sinking at the present rate , in ten minutes the hole would n't be above the waterline , but below . |
| 16 | ‘ If the number of candidates keeps rising at the present rate ’ , he said , ‘ then by the year 2010 the entire population of the world will have a SCOTVEC National Certificate ! ’ |
| 17 | Work on the index began in July 1983 , and at the present rate of progress the initial data preparation phase should be finished by January 1988 . |
| 18 | At the present rate , emissions from aircraft are set to increase by 50 per cent by 2020 . |
| 19 | One fifth of England will have been lost to urban sprawl by 2050 if development continues at the present rate , according to the Council for the Protection of Rural England . |
| 20 | The world tiger population is estimated at between 6,000-9,000 ; if poaching continues at the present rate the tiger will be extinct by early next century , according to expert predictions . |
| 21 | On the subject of Curtis Cup selection , she says : ‘ Oh , that 's a long way off , ’ though at the present rate of progress , it may not be as distant a prospect as she thinks . |
| 22 | and erm , it is therefore in those circumstances foolhardy in my opinion to carry on with the British Assessment Programme at the present rate when the effects on our roads are likely to be so drastic |
| 23 | at the right rate of pay . |
| 24 | The object is to match required amounts and maturities at the right rate . |
| 25 | The cost of the call via BT would have been £29.25 at the cheap rate after 8pm , BT confirmed . |
| 26 | Seven thousand people who had bought tickets at the cheap rate in the following week were obliged to pay a surcharge . |
| 27 | Since calls must be made close to a node , then why not simply find a telephone kiosk — must work these days and the cost will only be at the standard rate . |
| 28 | This is because St James 's Church was not listed as a building of architectural or historic interest after it was declared redundant and thus the cost of the building work would attract Value Added Tax at the standard rate . |
| 29 | If the owner is abroad , the agent will also collect tax at the standard rate of 25 per cent , which will be deducted from your monthly rent cheque . |
| 30 | Tack on VAT at the standard rate , and you are looking at a total tax take of £1.33 ( surprisingly , the same as on diesel ) and £1.60 respectively . |