Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] at [art] [adj] rate " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost all studies show that acid secretion remains at the same rate . |
| 2 | The performance of computers improves at an astounding rate , perhaps unlike any other machine in the world . |
| 3 | The body of a young child works at the maximum rate , enabling the child to process far more information in a given time than an adult could . |
| 4 | However , it has been judicially observed that the objection to a rent representing a percentage of the tenant 's turnover is that , if the price of a commodity rises at a faster rate than the cost of living , pressure is likely to develop on dealers in that commodity to reduce their margin of profit or rate of commission ( Naylor v Uttoxeter UDC ( 1974 ) 231 EG 619 per Brightman J ) . |
| 5 | One fifth of England will have been lost to urban sprawl by 2050 if development continues at the present rate , according to the Council for the Protection of Rural England . |
| 6 | The creature grows at an alarming rate , then escapes and cuts a swathe of destruction as it moves through the southern Italian countryside . |
| 7 | If the rate remains at the current rate of 25% ( which is currently equal to the basic rate of Income Tax ) the benefit will be as outlined in the Introduction . |
| 8 | No firm grows at a constant rate throughout its life , so while the earnings model in the last subsection gives simple and convenient formulae for the share price , it is not very realistic . |
| 9 | But after death , the amount of radiocarbon decreases at a fixed rate : it halves every 5730 years . |
| 10 | Subsequently the widths of the linear magnetic zones were related to the duration of each successive epoch of normal and reversed polarity on the assumption that the ocean floor spreads at a constant rate away from mid-oceanic ridges . |
| 11 | Chlorophyll depends naturally on light , CO 2 , humidity and warmth , although primary photoreaction proceeds at the same rate regardless of temperature . |
| 12 | A. This argues that , since information arrives at an uneven rate , the observed distribution of futures price changes ( or returns ) will be a mixture of a number of normal distributions , and this observed distribution will be leptokurtic . |
| 13 | For example , although a curie of any radioactive element disintegrates at the same rate as I gram of natural radium ( as found in sea-water ) there is no connection between this and the relative toxicity of the element as compared to radium . |
| 14 | As output and sales rise , so does total cost and , in this example , total cost rises at a constant rate from £220,000 when 40,000 units are produced to £700,000 when 200,000 units are produced . |
| 15 | In every case the estimate of β was markedly higher for the period closer to delivery , i.e. volatility declines at a faster rate in the fifty days just before delivery . |
| 16 | Because incense burns at an even rate and without flame , it is well suited for measuring the division of the religious day and for other purposes . |
| 17 | This means that , in the above example , for every 100 nominal bond , interest accrues at the daily rate of 0.021614583 . |