Example sentences of "[verb] at a [adj] rate " in BNC.
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| 1 | A trader seeking to buy dollars ( for example ) in the forward market will buy at a forward rate which is less advantageous to him ( that is , if the exchange rate is defined as the sterling price of a dollar , f t may be greater than ) . |
| 2 | All of the world 's savannas have been affected by human activity and , as Table 7.2 shows , deforestation is occurring at a rapid rate due to agricultural development and fuelwood collection . |
| 3 | It was clear from the work done then that , even after a full year , major changes in unemployment , self-employment , and employment taken up and ended within the group , were still occurring at a high rate . |
| 4 | The method of carbon dating is based on the assumption that these two reactions have been occurring at a constant rate for the past 15000 years . |
| 5 | More evidence of the worldwide decline of coral has emerged from Florida , where researchers who have been monitoring the health of the reefs since 1976 report that they are dying at a rapid rate . |
| 6 | Furthermore , the wages of artisans , although they moved at a different rate , followed the same general pattern of increasing real values at approximately the same dates . |
| 7 | Many beginners find it difficult , at first , to remember the Japanese phrases , but within the first few months of practice the language barrier begins to fade at a rapid rate . |
| 8 | The simplest models assume that earnings grow at a constant rate of g per cent per year . |
| 9 | Babies do not , as doctors have always believed , grow at a steady rate but in stops and starts — even shooting up by half an inch in 24 hours . |
| 10 | By subjecting the specimen to a tensile force applied at a uniform rate and measuring the resulting deformation , a curve of the type shown in figure 13.6 can be constructed . |
| 11 | In addition , a sharply progressive personal tax system will make dividends a relatively unattractive source of income for the marginal tax payer compared to capital gains which may be taxed at a flat rate . |
| 12 | Most estates were assessed in numbers of hides ( roughly 70,000 – 80,000 in all ) , units used in the allocation of public burdens which might be military , as in 1008 , when every 300 hides provided a ship and every eight a helmet and byrnie ( mail-coat ) for the navy , or financial , with each hide taxed at a particular rate . |
| 13 | Amounts over this are taxed at a single rate of 40 per cent . |
| 14 | Where the publications are a supply for acquisition , the recipient subscriber will account for VAT in its member state although such publications are zero-rated in the UK , in other member states they are taxed at a reduced rate , and in Denmark they are taxed at 25% ! |
| 15 | Business therefore expanded at a great rate and labour was not as well organised or well informed as it is today . |
| 16 | A homogeneous population will eventually grow at a steady rate r , which is given by the Euler-Lotka equation , In an asexual population , or a population of sexually reproducing haploids that vary only at a single locus , the outcome of natural selection depends simply on the long-term growth rates associated with each genotype , in the absence of density- or frequency-dependent interactions , each genotype will eventually grow exponentially at a rate that depends on its own life history , given by equation ( 1 ) . |
| 17 | Accelerated by the current economic recession , old manufacturing industries are disappearing while the new information technology based industries are developing at a high rate . |
| 18 | Since World War II karate has , like all the martial arts , grown at a tremendous rate . |
| 19 | Tax benefits to private pension arrangements have risen at a similar rate , although the growth has been from a smaller base . |
| 20 | The sample is placed in a heating block and warmed at a uniform rate . |
| 21 | It is a universal charge , levied at a flat rate for all individuals over the age of 18 living in the local authority area . |
| 22 | Social security employee contributions , a payroll tax levied at a flat rate of 7.65 per cent on the first $51,300 of an individual 's earned income , were paid into trust funds and used to finance retirement benefits and Medicare — health-care programmes for the elderly . |
| 23 | ( Income tax is levied at a basic rate of 25 per cent and a higher rate of 40 per cent — correct as of 1990 budget . ) |
| 24 | Television is at least one escape and just like all the other trivial pastimes , should allow the unemployed to participate at a reduced rate . |
| 25 | Another member , after referring to the particular reference in the Financial Secretary 's statement to airline and railway employees , asked whether the same distinction applied to services provided by hotel companies to their employees — that is , to rooms which are freely available for the general public in hotels being offered at a concessionary rate to employees of the hotel group . |
| 26 | Services offered at a discounted rate include : |
| 27 | The package will be offered at a competitive rate in the medium price range for such a product . |
| 28 | They do n't occur at a uniform rate , but there 's nothing in Darwinism which implies that they should , but I was looking at some data on radiolarians recently in which about every sixty thousand years there 's a population sample — I mean you can estimate and see the rate at which this stuff is building up — and in no occasion in a period of sixty thousand years did the population change by more than about half a standard deviation . |
| 29 | Recently some people have been trying a different approach , seeing if they can change the nature of the atoms such that fusion can occur at a useful rate even at room temperature . |
| 30 | In rural Wales , for example , taking 1938–39 as the year of the ‘ peak ’ network , considerable decline may be seen in route mileage in the first decade up to 1949 , although this did not occur at a constant rate and varied considerably in the north and south of Wales , and according to the specific operating companies considered . |