Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] at [art] rate of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a study undertaken over a two-week period , Tom Tadecki , research director of the International Coalition Against Violent Entertainment , found that more than 33 per cent of its programmes involved some form of aggression , with violent acts occurring at a rate of 10 per hour . |
| 2 | The figures for BBC 1 and BBC 2 were 10 per cent , with violent acts occurring at a rate of 2.5 per hour on BBC 1 , and two on BBC 2 . |
| 3 | ( 2 ) Throughout your occupation you will pay rent calculated at the rate of £ per annum payable on demand in advance ( but periodic demands shall not convert this tenancy into a periodic tenancy ) . |
| 4 | This was followed by pamidronate in 500 mL 5% dextrose infused at a rate of 15 mg/h . |
| 5 | In most ERCP patients , hypoxia can be avoided by intranasal oxygen given at a rate of 4–5 litres per minute . |
| 6 | Subjects were asked to make rhyme judgments about consonants appearing at a rate of one per second . |
| 7 | During the period 1990-90 , urban areas expanded at the rate of 11,000 ha per year . |
| 8 | As already stated , well beyond cut-off their attenuation increases at a rate of 20n dB per decade of frequency . |
| 9 | And with beer drinking declining at the rate of 10 per cent in the South East and five per cent in the North , breweries have realised they must cut prices . |
| 10 | ‘ Did you know ’ , Matilda said suddenly , ‘ that the heart of a mouse beats at the rate of six hundred and fifty times a minute ? ’ |
| 11 | The waste arrives at the rate of up to seven tanker-loads every day — that is seven lorries passing thousands of doorsteps . |
| 12 | If these rates were maintained then , with population growing at the rate of 1 per cent a year , each generation could expect to be roughly twice as well off as its parents and four times as well off as its grandparents . |
| 13 | Council housing stocks dwindling at the rate of 200 a year ( Tory policy of course ) . |
| 14 | Engineers have recently scaled up the process to separate at a rate of a few milligrams per hour . |
| 15 | Saline ( 0.9% NaCl , wt/wt ) was continuously infused into a jugular veing at a rate of 1.5 ml/h to avoid dehydration . |
| 16 | Lown and Wolf classified ventricular extrasystoles occurring at a rate of less than one per minute as isolated and of little prognostic significance , whereas those occurring at a rate of more than one per minute were more indicative of an unfavourable prognosis . |
| 17 | Other electrocardiographic abnormalities , in addition to ventricular extrasystoles occurring at a rate of more than 1/min , regarded as of ‘ sinister ’ importance — that is , markers of potentially serious complications are , ST segment increase or depression of more than 1 mm , supraventricular tachycardia ( three or more consecutive supraventricular extrasystoles at a rate of more than 130/min ) , second or third degree heart block , ventricular bigemini or trigemini , ventricular tachycardia , ventricular fibrillation or asystole . |
| 18 | Lichenologists have estimated that crustose lichens in Alaska and Lappland grow at a rate of 3–4mm/100 years , which would make lichens there of 480 mm diameter at least 9000 years old . |
| 19 | Throughout the nineteenth century output per person grew at a rate of 1.5 per cent per annum . |
| 20 | Furphy , whose recent past included a spell in the United States , ( where a high flyer leisure executive delivered the ‘ amazing ’ one liner , which has stuck in his mind to this day ) is the hands on marketing man whose job it is to oversee the vast membership growth that is enabling Lloyd to expand at the rate of two clubs per year . |
| 21 | If inflation continued at the rate of 5% per annum , then by 1 January , 1992 each £100 original nominal value of the bond would be worth £110.25 and the interest due thereon in that year would be £2.205 . |
| 22 | If after 10 games the score is 5–5 there will be two quick play games played at a rate of 60 moves in 45 minutes and then 15 minutes each in a sudden death ‘ blitz finish ’ . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | His first job was to calculate when they should finish , how long they should take to plough the whole field , each man ploughing at the rate of three-quarters of an acre in one day . |
| 25 | Probability of life arising on a planet ( in , say , a billion years ) , if we assume that life arises at a rate of about once per solar system . |
| 26 | Probability of life arising on a planet if life arises at a rate of about once per galaxy . |
| 27 | The wave propagated at a rate of 3–10μms r-1 . |
| 28 | where loss , misdelivery or damage , however sustained , is in respect of the whole of the Consignment , to a sum calculated at the rate of £800 per tonne on either the gross weight of the Consignment or , where applicable , the tonnage computed in accordance with Condition 8(2) ( a ) or ( b ) hereof : |
| 29 | Bone loss on the mandible proceeded at a rate of 2 mm per hour , resulting in erosion of the inferior border and loss of the incisor ( Fig. 1.8h ) . |
| 30 | In effect , the Bank is making available that quantity of monetary base necessary to support the flow of bank lending at the rate of interest of its own choosing . |