Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [art] rate of " in BNC.

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1 Thus there has to be some mechanism that would eliminate the very large effective cosmological constant and so change the rate of expansion from an accelerated one to one that is slowed down by gravity , as we have today .
2 The fall in the rate of interest will raise the rate of investment spending and so cause the rate of national income to rise again .
3 Fibre-rich diets may help with weight loss by : reducing the amount of calories in the same volume of food ; increasing the amount of chewing and so slowing the rate of intake ; increasing the feeling of satisfaction ; helping to balance the body 's glucose and hormonal metabolisms ; and being more nutritious .
4 Although the trend is towards larger farms in terms of both production and acreage , the decline in the labour force is sufficiently outpacing the rate of farm amalgamation to produce a continuing decline in the average number of workers employed on each farm .
5 Reduce power enough to ensure a rate of descent which will bring the model down to ground level just in front of you .
6 Moreover , Adamson et al found that in epithelial-cell-fibroblast cocultures , direct contact between these cells greatly increased the rate of fibroblast growth .
7 Removal of 2000 m during the Permian would only require a rate of 53 m per million years .
8 If the flow of compulsory exiles to Siberia decreased during the reign of Peter the Great , so did the rate of voluntary fugitives from central European Russia increase by leaps and bounds .
9 As the balance on your Saver Plus increases so does the rate of interest you receive .
10 As the heart speeds up so does the rate of intake of oxygen to supply the blood
11 In moderate amounts , it is not troublesome , but for dyeing work it may be desirable to keep the concentration reasonably constant so as not to affect the rate of dyeing .
12 Our inflation view may be more bearish than most , but was supported by the Chancellor at Mansion House , when he said : ‘ Some people insist that movements in the exchange rate are just a change in relative prices which need not affect the rate of inflation .
13 We can not lower the rate of VAT under Community rules , but we can try to find a way to assist the industry .
14 Such deposits would normally earn a rate of interest close to the equivalent of the average rate of discount at the most recent Treasury bill tender and would be called in amounts set as a percentage of eligible liabilities .
15 This conclusion is supported by evidence that age does not influence the rate of recovery of quality of life after hospital care for pneumonia .
16 Moreover , the ozone deposition velocity is so low over water ( 0.1cms -1 ) that dry deposition can not explain the rate of ozone loss apparent in Fig. 1 during morning hours .
17 But the Bank of England can nevertheless influence the rate of discount by altering the amount of Treasury bills it sells .
18 The overall thickness of the skin is controlled by the rate of division of the basal cells and removal of cells from the outer layer somehow increases the rate of cell multiplication to restore the thickness ; perhaps the dying outer layers produce an inhibitor of cell proliferation so that if the number of surface cells is reduced inhibitor concentration decreases and more cells are produced .
19 " So long as we are not measuring the rate of depletion year by year , we have no basis for guessing how soon the asphyxiation of large parts of the Pacific might begin " , warned Dyson .
20 If we take the Prime Minister 's words at face value — that the Conserservative party will not raise the rate of VAT — does the hon. Gentleman recall an interview given recently by the Chief Secretary , when he was asked about extending coverage of VAT to transport fares ?
21 Excitement usually increases the rate of speech , raises the voice pitch and there may be more than usual gesticulation .
22 An estimated German N.R.R. of 1.48 between 1907–12 , for example , had sunk to 0.98 in 1940 , while Poland , whose N.R.R. in 1927 was 1.30 , still enjoyed a rate of 1.11 in 1934 .
23 I do n't know how you normally do this for overseas payments : possibly take the rate of exchange as it is on the day of cheque request ?
24 Panić and Vernon ( 1975 ) also found the rate of return on capital employed to be a significant variable in affecting investment in five of the six manufacturing industries studied .
25 You can also study the rate of increase of the beetles , as described for aphids in Chapter 4 .
26 A desired [ CO 2 ] gradient was maintained in the chamber during daylight ( 9–10h daily ) by automatically varying the rate of unidirectional air flow through the cover in response to changes in photosynthetic CO 2 depletion by enclosed plants and sunlight intensity .
27 Therefore SO 2 has the potential to reduce the transmission of the solar flux , reducing the photolysis rates of key species such as O 2 and hence reducing the rate of ozone production .
28 A half-speed recorder would effectively halve the rate of tax that consumers would pay , should a levy be introduced .
29 The rate of growth of agricultural output in the Meiji period is subject to considerable dispute , but it is probable that a rate of around 1.8 per cent annual growth in output was maintained through to the early 1900s at least , far outstripping the rate of population growth in the same period .
30 The increase in secondary school enrolments in DET schools has far outstripped the rate of population increase .
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