Example sentences of "[adv] high rate of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bill identifies much of the blame for the tremendously high rate of deforestation in India as belonging to the adivasis or tribal peoples , who have been systematically marginalised and impoverished for over a thousand years , and who have now retreated into the mountains and remaining forests of central India ( a close-up case study is provided of a tribal group , the Sora , in sect. 7.4 ) . |
| 2 | After much haggling , approval was only obtained for those four out of the seven sets which could meet the much higher rate of return which would henceforth be applied to BR investment . |
| 3 | The finding that the gastrin concentration is similar in the H pylori positive and negative uraemic patients , despite the much higher rate of ammonia production in the former , is further evidence against the hypergastrinaemia being due to bacterial ammonia production . |
| 4 | Young people have a much higher rate of suicide , smoking , and accidental death . |
| 5 | Though we agree that a failure to understand normal preputial physiology has led to an unacceptably high rate of circumcision , even the strictest criteria will not prevent a considerable number of these procedures from being performed . |
| 6 | Further , the fact that there has been such a steep rise in the number of divorces , combined with a fairly high rate of remarriage , means that a rising proportion of all marriages are of people marrying for at least the second time . |
| 7 | In addition , Britain 's total housing stock has increased by 2 million units in the past 12 years — a far higher rate of increase than that of the population as a whole . |
| 8 | Is he also aware that bloodstock is subject to a far higher rate of VAT than in this country in France or in Ireland ? |
| 9 | The result — a rather higher rate of completion of power stations and higher spending four or five years later in the mid-1950s — was welcomed by the Electricity Division , but it annoyed the Treasury and caused political embarrassment for the Government ( which had been promising restraint in the public sector ) . |
| 10 | The particularly high rate of loss of manufacturing jobs in the UK and the consequent problems for inner cities and manufacturing regions would therefore on this reading be in part due to the relatively fragile development of Fordism , which means that certain manufacturing industries had remained relatively backward and therefore less competitive . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | However , it is always open to the court to strike out an unusually high rate of interest if it considers it to be unfair . |
| 13 | The studies only agreed on a consistently high rate of dream reports from REM sleep . |
| 14 | Although Thailand has a relatively high rate of literacy and primary school enrolment , the secondary system is weak . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , glossing over all the numerical details and hypothetical scenarios , it is clear that Wirral had a relatively high rate of problem drug use in the mid-1980s compared with similar areas in other parts of the country , though there are data and arguments to support both the forecast of an ongoing rise in prevalence as well as the prediction of an imminent decline . |
| 16 | To show this , suppose that the UK has a relatively high rate of inflation and that , as a result , the pound is depreciating : speculators who expect the pound to continue depreciating will sell pounds and buy stronger currencies so as to make a capital gain later . |
| 17 | From a Marxist perspective crime is largely the product of capitalism , and the relatively high rate of crime in capitalist society is an indicator of the contradictions and problems inherent in such a system . |
| 18 | ‘ Action is clearly necessary to control this very high rate of increase , ’ Lord Carmyllie said . |
| 19 | Yes , you could do that , so , so y you go for erm a very high rate of taxation or you go for a lower rate of taxation which is |
| 20 | Gliders have very low stick forces and the lower flying speeds give them a very high rate of pitch . |
| 21 | At morning Sunday school every week there was a clothing club into which each child was allowed to pay threepence a week and at the end of forty-eight weeks was issued with a voucher for fourteen shillings , a very high rate of interest in those days . |
| 22 | However , as the sole candidate and with the very high rate of abstention ( only 28.28 per cent of voters turned out ) , his presidency had been widely regarded as lacking in legitimacy . |
| 23 | The economic significance of this division was that it made possible a very high rate of saving . |
| 24 | This is , by any standard , a very high rate of acceptance . |
| 25 | This is , by any standard , a very high rate of acceptance . |
| 26 | This odd reversal of polygyny has been attributed to a very high rate of ground predation whereby clutches are easily lost . |
| 27 | Erm we er well as you know I mean the there 's a very high rate of unemployment amongst tenants in the flats , |
| 28 | ‘ Derry has a very high rate of unemployment . |