Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] the [det] rate " in BNC.
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| 1 | you ruin your chances so about three times a week the comes in to arrange my poll tax and all this and they get going you know well why should a bloke that having a big house and he only pays the same rate as them so I said , well it 's like this as far I 'm concerned I said you know no bloke works perhaps twice as many hours as you do he chooses |
| 2 | The first half of the 1980s did not see the same rate of increase in local and central government employment as most of the post-war period . |
| 3 | The recruitment of migrant labour has also had what one might refer to as a series of indirect benefits , especially in the earlier phase of immigration , because Britain and the other importing countries were able to avoid the costs involved in actually producing the immigrant labour power , from the birth to the maturation of the workers concerned , and because of the lower demands on the welfare state of economically active , healthy , single , young men and women who nevertheless paid the same rate of taxation as other workers ( Gorz , 1970 ) . |
| 4 | For example , a family of four occupying a semi-detached house may consume more local services than the single occupier next door , but would still pay the same rates . |
| 5 | Part-time work , so you ca n't expect the same rates as fulltimers would get . |
| 6 | We do n't anticipate the same rate of increase that we saw last year , but we 'd be expecting probably somewhere in the region of a 10 to 15 per cent increase over the coming year . |