Example sentences of "[adv] high rates of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The counter argument is that investors ought to have known that there was a risk involved , particularly those who put their funds in the Gibraltar fund at suspiciously high rates of interest in order to avoid UK taxation . |
| 2 | On 6 December , in my first speech for several years from the back benches of the House of Commons , I said : ‘ Our entry into the ERM was welcomed by both sides of the House and by most of the press , but it is now clear that the bands within which the pound is allowed to float are sustained only by damagingly high rates of interest in Britain . ’ |
| 3 | In the Highlands , faced with abnormally high rates of suicide , accidental death , alcoholism and heart disease , funds for health would be more than welcome , according to Highland Health Board . |
| 4 | Telephone interviews with over 400 Scottish businesses , typifying the community , picked up impressively high rates of satisfaction . |
| 5 | Thus high rates of job loss might be expected in areas where there is a high rate of technological innovation , but this may also be associated with an equally high rate of job creation . |
| 6 | The postwar changes resulted in a prolonged boom , with exceptionally high rates of growth , from 1950 until the early 1970s , in the capitalist countries ( Postan , 1967 ; Maddison , 1982 ) , and similarly rapid growth in Eastern Europe over the same period . |
| 7 | In 1982 the programme area was extended to cover an adjoining neighbourhood , California Kirkbride , which registered similarly high rates of deprivation to the original six neighbourhoods ( Allegheny West , Central North Side , East Allegheny , Fineview , Manchester and Perry South ) . |
| 8 | For example , relatively high rates of inflation in one country will tend to produce balance of payments ‘ deficits ’ and a downward pressure on the exchange rate ; such a country thus faces the necessity of imposing anti-inflationary policies in order to maintain the exchange rate . |
| 9 | The chronic trade deficits have resulted in the USA becoming the major debtor country in the sense that other countries ' savings have flowed to the USA , attracted by relatively high rates of interest and the apparent security of investment in the world 's most powerful economy . |
| 10 | Nitrogen mustards in suitable doses damage only cells and tissues which normally exhibit relatively high rates of proliferation and growth . |
| 11 | The epidemic took hold during the 1970s , when high rates of income tax and an attempt by successive governments to control pay made the company-owned car a good way of rewarding people surreptitiously . |
| 12 | This arrangement worked fine until a decade or so ago , when high rates of inflation , increased benefits and an upsurge in the number of pensioners threatened the fund 's solvency . |
| 13 | The most widely held reason for the decline in Keynesianism was its supposed inability to explain the historically high rates of inflation which occurred in Europe and North America from the late 1960s onwards . |
| 14 | It 's quite interesting that er two members of the Conservative party have referred to these very high rates of inflation er that happened under a Labour government er because they , the , the reason they occurred primarily , if you remember is because in nineteen seventy two oil , oil was three dollars a barrel . |
| 15 | As Prime Minister , Rajiv Gandhi of India has pointed out the real practical problem is that the rich will evade very high rates of tax . |
| 16 | Because a decline in the value of the pound against that of other currencies would aggravate the condition , the Government is constrained to try to maintain that value ; and to do so by the inducement of very high rates of interest . |
| 17 | Over the next few years we are projecting very high rates of growth , not less than double and up to three times the rate of inflation . |
| 18 | In these and other ways the state has favoured those companies who have displayed very high rates of investment , and this almost by definition excludes most small firms . |
| 19 | One key element in higher productivity is the very high rates of investment in manufacturing industry which has led to both quantitative and qualitative improvements in productive equipment . |
| 20 | Very high rates of tariff covering about 7 per cent of goods in the United States and United Kingdom almost disappeared , and the proportion of trade ( excluding agriculture and fuels ) which attracted tariffs of 15 per cent or less rose from 54 per cent to 85 per cent in the USA , from 37 per cent to 85 per cent in the United Kingdom and from 71 per cent to 97 per cent for the EEC . |
| 21 | Then on the third page , some wards with very high rates of unemployment , I think they are the top twenty if memory serves me right . |
| 22 | There are very high rates of unemployment in this area , many disabled and elderly and long term ill people and single parent families who have benefited from this service . |
| 23 | Such measures would need very high rates of carbon tax , raising revenues that would be roughly equivalent to a tenth of world product . |