Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] at [art] rate " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , in a particular year a given region has x million inhabitants and the population is expected to increase at a rate of 2% per year . |
| 2 | Consequently there is a change in excitation and the motor starts to accelerate at a rate dictated by the load parameters . |
| 3 | Thus , when the discount houses offer to sell bills to the Bank , the latter is in a strong position to influence rates of interest in the bill market by refusing to buy at the rates quoted . |
| 4 | When such a clear target has been voiced and accepted , ideas for units begin to flow at a rate which the technology and the programmer find difficult to cope with . |
| 5 | The volume of data being created is continuing to explode at a rate seemingly far in excess of what a diminishing workforce ought to be able to produce . |
| 6 | Given this evaporation rate and the smaller inflows into the sea , the level is continuing to drop at a rate of about 0.5 m a year . |
| 7 | In the very early stages the white hole appears to expand at a rate several times the speed of light , as I explain in an article written with R. C. Kapoor in Astrophysics and Space Sciences ( vol 53 , p 155 ) . |
| 8 | In the absence of rain , try to water at the rate of 1–2 gallons per sq yd , twice a week . |
| 9 | Erm she would ask that and fine that impose today er , could be paid by her at the rate of five pounds per week erm , she er runs a car her invalidity income amounts to forty six pounds fifteen pence per week and she also receives a super annuation payment from her former employers Goldeson 's Hospital at the rate of a hundred and three pounds per month but she and her husband do have to er to run the home and er , and run the house er , run run the car and she would ask that she 'll be allowed to pay at the rate of five pound per week . |
| 10 | Unbelievably , M4 was allowed to rise at a rate of 17.7 per cent in the most recent six-month period . |
| 11 | In December 1987 the cost-of-living index was 170 per cent above its level in December of the previous year , and even under the ‘ price freeze ’ of the first few months of 1988 , prices continued to rise at a rate equivalent to an annual rate of about 100 per cent . |
| 12 | So , an ‘ epidemic ’ of heroin use occurs when incidence rises ( above the normal , endemic level of use ) and continues to rise at a rate higher than the outcidence rate . |