Example sentences of "at different rate " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consider , for example , a mechanical clock : its several cogwheels will all turn at different rates and it is almost an arbitrary decision to link some of these to ‘ hands ’ that tell us the passage of the seconds , minutes , hours , or lunar month . |
| 2 | Change from one state of a system to another may occur at different rates at contrasting levels . |
| 3 | Conceivably , different forms , changing at different rates and showing contrasting combinations of characteristics , were present in different areas . |
| 4 | The TPU provides a flexible layer , allowing the materials to expand and contract at different rates without delaminating . |
| 5 | This means that a business can easily work out what would happen if its sales , purchases , wages etc were all to change at different rates , with some going up and some going down . |
| 6 | They have found that molecules of oxygen ( 02 ) split up at different rates according to whether the molecule contains two atoms of oxygen-16 or one atom of oxygen-16 combined with another of the rarer oxygen-17 or oxygen-18 isotopes . |
| 7 | Many of the species arrive simultaneously during the early years , but grow at different rates . |
| 8 | Since wages and prices tend to be ‘ sticky ’ in the downward direction , the only way that the price mechanism can work and give the appropriate signals is for the prices of different goods and services to rise at different rates . |
| 9 | With regular partial water changes , and plenty of food , they will grow quite quickly and will need thinning out as many will grow at different rates and need more space . |
| 10 | Both types of mutation — harmful or useful — may arise at different rates depending on stresses inherent in the environment . |
| 11 | However , although the overall price rise permitted has been fixed , this does not prevent BT from increasing different tariffs at different rates ( provided it does not engage in Predatory pricing ) . |
| 12 | The intervention period has been too short All children learn at different rates . |
| 13 | He has limitations of memory ( is there a single pilot who can recall all the instructions in his operations manual ? ) , limitations of response times , limitations to the amount of information he can assimilate at one time and process mentally ; and everyone responds differently and at different rates . |
| 14 | Thus , it is to sectoral differences that we now turn , to illustrate how change has been occurring at different rates and with different implications for governments . |
| 15 | Thus " an experienced woman worker " told her that men do the same work as women in many cases and at different rates , but there are certain parts of the work that women never do , such for instance as the lifting of the " formes " and " chases " . |
| 16 | However , the national financial and economic climate prevailing at any given time has influenced the supply and demand for such housing , and prices have altered at different rates ( almost always increasing ) during this period . |
| 17 | there is a tendency to standardize different time-scales — but in fact different musical types , and sometimes different pieces within a type , may sell at different rates over different time-spans ; thus the Beatles ' ‘ Ca n't Buy Me Love ’ sold a million copies in a week while Ken Dodd 's ‘ Tears ’ took five months to do the same ( Harker 1980 : 98–9 ) . |
| 18 | This version of the story is almost certainly inaccurate since settlements during the strike were made , not nationally but port by port , at different rates , though this does not rule out some other contingent disagreement between Shinwell and Wilson . |
| 19 | They were certainly going at different rates . |
| 20 | ( Including information about job characteristics improved the extent to which pay variance within the sexes was explained , but it did not explain very much more of the gap between the sexes since men and women in apparently similar sorts of jobs were being paid at different rates . ) |
| 21 | In bilingual communities undergoing a process of language shift , the sexes are likely to focus on the new monolingual norm at different rates ( Gal 1979 ) . |
| 22 | That is why time can pass at different rates . |
| 23 | Similarly , it was long obvious that time went at the same rate for every observer , but since Einstein , we have had to accept that time goes at different rates for different observers . |
| 24 | As a family 's income rose , so the cash aid was withdrawn at different rates for different members of the sample . |
| 25 | Forests at high elevations and trees more than 60 years old appear to suffer worst , but different tree species are affected in different ways and at different rates . |
| 26 | Curtains that have linings sewn in will require dry cleaning in order to reduce the risk of lining and curtain fabric shrinking at different rates . |
| 27 | Different constituents will move through the system at different rates and one time-step in the simulation could represent a day for mobile salts but as much as a millennium for a relatively immobile element such as aluminium . |
| 28 | Fig. 4.8 shows two responses of a motor to a series of steps at different rates . |
| 29 | The curvature of space–time also means that identical clocks at different gravitational potentials must run at different rates . |
| 30 | Over a period of time circuit boards and chips creep out of their sockets as different components cool and heat up at different rates . |