Example sentences of "at [art] rate " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sow the seeds , which look like sweet peas , at the rate of about 1/2oz-sq yd . |
| 2 | Sow it from August to November at the rate of 1oz/sq yd . |
| 3 | Class 321 units continued to be delivered at the rate of two a week , and on the Isle of Wight ‘ new ’ 1938-built former London Underground trains began to be introduced to replace coaches dating from 1923 . |
| 4 | But four main factors are singled out by Chris Green for the currently greatly improved outlook : the record investment currently being made , at the end of 1989 amounting to an astonishing million pounds a day ; the success of the Networker train whose carriages in 1989 were being delivered at the rate of one a day ; the enormous level of London station development both enhancing the environment ( who at the start of the 1980s would have thought of treating a terminus as a shopping precinct ? ) and producing revenue on the grand scale ; and the steady introduction of Integrated Electronic Control Centres ( discussed in detail in the signalling chapter ) . |
| 5 | The waste arrives at the rate of up to seven tanker-loads every day — that is seven lorries passing thousands of doorsteps . |
| 6 | Indeed during the finale , at the rate his arm whirled over his Fender strings , it looked as though he had caught the tail end of Hurricane Hugo during their US tour . |
| 7 | People are leaving Paris at the rate of some 20,000 a year , chased out by soaring property prices and the shortage of rental accommodation — especially of flats big enough for a family . |
| 8 | We saw awful conditions in Bouzoulouk , where , out of a population of 35,000 they are dying at the rate of 100 a day . |
| 9 | During 1938 and 1939 slum-dwellers were being rehoused at the rate of 1,000 a day . |
| 10 | The vast waiting lists of the local authorities , as well as the existing local authority houses , contain large numbers of families who , with private enterprise building again at the rate and real cost of the 1930s , would be both able and willing to accommodate themselves at economic rents or prices . |
| 11 | Let us suppose that a Government , a party , observing that the rate of increase of the national income has been as high as 3 per cent in real terms over the last few years , were to decide to make plans which involve the growth of public expenditure at the rate of 2and1/2 ; per cent , so as to be a little within the recent happy experience . |
| 12 | It was a route she chose originally because she did not have enough capital to expand at the rate business demanded . |
| 13 | Use all the Corrado 's ample performance and the lead-free fuel flows through the intakes at the rate of around 22mpg , and this shows little sign of improvement even when driven more gently . |
| 14 | Overall its exclusively lead-free diet was consumed at the rate of 10.2mpg , even with a thirsty catalyst as standard . |
| 15 | And yet these species are vanishing at the rate of one every half hour , before we can even identify and research them . |
| 16 | Donations were pouring into the appeals office in the basement of Great Ormond Street at the rate of £2 million a month . |
| 17 | Many calculated their wages not in the national currency , the dinar , but in deutschemarks at the rate of between 400 and 600 marks a month , three times the present average . |
| 18 | Keepin and Kats were responsible for a calculation which has been taken up and treated with biblical reverence by the anti-nuclear lobby : for nuclear power to displace coal from the energy mix in a high energy scenario 8000 large reactors would have to be brought on line worldwide at the rate of one every one-and-a-half days . |
| 19 | They contribute 14 per cent of the greenhouse effect and are increasing at the rate of 6 per cent a year . |
| 20 | Relief on the rest will be taken at the rate of 5% a year . |
| 21 | Hong Kong 's dollar has been yoked to America 's at the rate of 7.8 to 1 since 1983 . |
| 22 | Quietly , Shell invests in its businesses at the rate of some $10 billion a year — a level which Sir Peter Holmes , its chairman , says will not change , Gulf war or not . |
| 23 | The income of a trust is liable to income tax at the rate applicable to the beneficiary to whom the income is paid . |
| 24 | He had n't much chance of catching Caspar , not at the rate the dog was going . |
| 25 | In the absence of rain , try to water at the rate of 1–2 gallons per sq yd , twice a week . |
| 26 | With reports in wide circulation that she was amassing a multi-million fortune at the rate of £620,000 a month , Kylie was also able to indulge in her passion for shopping . |
| 27 | He promised to pay off his debt at the rate of 20 marks a year . |
| 28 | The clerks handing out ballot papers at your polling station yesterday were selected by the local electoral registration officer : in most instances , they were taking the day off from their town hall desk at the rate of £61.02 each . |
| 29 | ’ One has to balance these things carefully : they 're capable of erupting if churches are inflicted on them at the rate of more than , say , one every other day . |
| 30 | But the surprising interlude — the lava , pouring at the rate of a million tons a day since December from Europe 's highest and most active volcano , has not stopped but has simply stopped here — provided a rare example of nature doing the protecting . |