Example sentences of "about the [det] rate " in BNC.
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| 1 | J. Stasiak ( HAS March 21 ) needs reminding that the community charge was introduced after a lawful groundswell of protest about the former rates system with which many Labour councils played fast and loose . |
| 2 | Examination of the location of the cDNA by autoradiography illustrated that a difference in migration between uncomplexed cDNA ( lane 2 as control ) and the cDNA:RNA complex , which migrates at about the same rate as uncomplexed RNA , could be distinguished . |
| 3 | But nearly all its distinctive features may be exhibited in a place where population and wealth are both growing , provided they are growing at about the same rate , and there is no scarcity of land : and provided also the methods of production and the conditions of trade change but little ; and above all , where the character of man himself is a constant quantity . |
| 4 | The south-east of England , for example , is sinking by about the same rate as the water is rising — about 15 cm a century . |
| 5 | At present the ice sheet is believed to be replenished by snow fall at about the same rate as ice melts or is lost into the sea . |