Example sentences of "at [art] rate " in BNC.
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| 31 | Staff are paid a salary at the rate equivalent to that of a unionised factory worker — in practice that is approximately equivalent to that of a High School teacher . |
| 32 | If the world 's 1984 stockpile of nuclear weapons were compressed into bombs of the size dropped on Hiroshima , it would take 4,600 years to go through them all if they were let off at the rate of one a day . |
| 33 | That was because there were over four million men being demobbed at the rate of 10,000 a day . |
| 34 | With 800–900 of Switzerland 's 2300 professors due to retire before the end of the decade , the Swiss have taken a leaf out of Britain 's book and set up a scheme for appointing ‘ new blood ’ assistant professors at the rate of 300 in each of the next two four-year planning periods . |
| 35 | I have not seen Brian Way for a few years now , since he went to work in America , but if he is continually developing his philosophy and practice at the rate Dorothy Heathcote is refining hers , then there is the added danger that anything written about them is out of date as it leaves the press . |
| 36 | At such times as it was expedient to run water from the Grand Union Canal into the Grand Junction Canal the passing of that water down from the top to the bottom pond , that is a fall of 56 feet and at the rate of say 2 locks per hour , would represent a gross force of 32 h.p. and this force could be utilized by means of a turbine or otherwise for providing power to work the lift . |
| 37 | Later , when the Board wanted to supply Upper Bolney Farm by crossing the course , water was conveyed to the greens as part of the wayleave deal at the rate of 10s. 0d. a green or £9 inclusive . |
| 38 | A study of the Ecuadorian censuses for 1954 and 1974 estimated that production on the smaller units had grown by an average of 2.7 per cent per year during the period , but on the larger units , growth was at the rate of 1.2 per cent . |
| 39 | They would start construction at the rate of one a year from 1982 onwards , and they would ideally be PWRs . |
| 40 | The economy continued to grow , the banking services increased ; by 1962 , 38 airlines were flying into Beirut at the rate of 99 flights a day . |
| 41 | In fact , only one per cent of plants in the rainforest have been fully analysed ; and yet the forests are being destroyed at the rate of fifty to a hundred acres per minute . |
| 42 | Though officially designated European Architectural Heritage Year , listed buildings , we calculated , were disappearing at the rate of one a day . |
| 43 | Exactly a month after the exhibition opened , the Secretary of State announced that state aid for churches in use would begin with immediate effect at the rate of £1 million a year . |
| 44 | Once ensconced in her burrow , the female mite will soon begin to lay eggs , which accumulate behind her at the rate of three or four a day . |
| 45 | Wilkinson looked at the rate at which starved vampires lose weight . |
| 46 | The first is that until 1983 all exports and imports were valued in so-called ‘ statistical ’ dollars , by converting the original valuations into dollars at the rate of exchange ruling at the beginning of the year . |
| 47 | Since the early 1970s it has attempted to raise the level of the less developed republics and provinces ( Bosnia and Herzegovina , Montenegro , Kosovo , and Macedonia ) by heavily subsidized loans from a special fund financed by the other republics and provinces , in 1987 at the rate of 1.56 per cent of their social product . |
| 48 | It was announced that supplies of oranges would be available from local shops from April 24th and be reserved for a period of five days at the rate of one lb. per head to children only . |
| 49 | If this aroma is appealing , blend into a perfume ( see page 69 ) at the rate of 10 drops of bergamot and 5 drops each of lavender and sandalwood . |
| 50 | Northampton Town , languishing since Chapman 's departure and losing money at the rate of £30 a week , were open to offers for Fanny Walden . |
| 51 | All this is perhaps inevitable in a subject which is expanding at the rate of around 1000 research publications a year . |
| 52 | Perhaps this was because of the dull routine nature of their job , servicing and re-fuelling incoming aircraft at the rate of about one flight every hour that day . |
| 53 | First Division is reserved for such as apostles , at the rate of two or three per month . |
| 54 | Interest is added each year at the rate of inflation for the previous year in order to maintain the value of the loan in real terms . |
| 55 | Terminals will cost around £500 ; on top of this , subscribers will have to pay for their information at the rate of about £30 per month . |
| 56 | The organisation wants to increase its investments at the rate of a dozen or so per year . |
| 57 | The sediment at the bottom of the sea permits nuclear waste to leak out at the rate of 1 metre per 10000 years not 10 years as appeared in last week 's article ( Technology , 17 February , p 442 ) . |
| 58 | Now scientists are saying that the land itself is foreign and that it too has travelled vast distances across ancient oceans — at the rate of some 25 cm a year . |
| 59 | Thus , to give one case example in ten thousand that spring to mind , no psychiatrist in his right mind would pay credence or even attention to the findings , as uncovered by Hans Eysenck some years ago , that patients undergoing psychoanalysis have an improvement rate of 44 per cent , those subject to the effects of other psychotherapy recover at the rate of 64 per cent , and those to whom nothing whatever is done , who receive no treatment at all , are cured at a rate of 72 per cent . |
| 60 | Prescribing by general practitioners is increasing at the rate of 5 per cent per year , and is one of the fastest-growing sectors of the budget of the Department of Health and Social Security . |