Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] at [art] rate of " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the first run the purchaser discovered a number of faults ; the dynamo did not work and the lorry consumed petrol at the rate of 5 m.p.g . |
| 2 | Like bats , dolphins emit pulses at a rate of 10–20 per second , increasing the rate to up to 200 per second as they home in on prey . |
| 3 | However , in the face of market expectations , the Bank took advantage of a money market shortage on 5 March to buy bills at a rate of discount of 11.75 per cent , 0.5 per cent higher than the previous day 's dealings and about 1 per cent above what markets were anticipating . |
| 4 | In the first test zone , the well produced oil at a rate of 1,972 barrels of oil per day and 3.7 million cubic feet of gas . |
| 5 | In 1978 and 1980 two independent German studies reported that , in German firms surveyed , robots had replaced workers at the rate of between two and four men per robot per shift . |
| 6 | The company has also invested £100,000 in mobile equipment and can now loads ships at the rate of 5,000 tonnes a day . |
| 7 | Northampton Town , languishing since Chapman 's departure and losing money at the rate of £30 a week , were open to offers for Fanny Walden . |
| 8 | This will mean that goods will cross borders at the rate of VAT levied by the exporting country , and then become subject to the VAT rate of the importing country . |
| 9 | For example , between 1971 and 1981 the eight principal cities of the UK were , on average , losing population at a rate of over 1 per cent per annum . |
| 10 | Retail giant Sears , known for what the company itself has described as an ‘ aggressive ’ stance on EDI , has been encouraging its suppliers to adopt EDI at a rate of 200 a month . |
| 11 | Such holes hardly deserve the epithet black : they really are white hot and are emitting energy at a rate of about ten thousand megawatts . |
| 12 | It was certainly not a prohibition on lending money at a rate of interest which can be earned by the recipient . |
| 13 | These may then be able to pay a minimum tax charge , equivalent to the current annual licence fee , or may elect to pay tax at a rate of up to 20% . |
| 14 | Offshore trading companies are liable to pay tax at a rate of 5% . |
| 15 | Crocodiles can lose water at a rate of up to half of that of amphibians ( which have a much more permeable skin , and would greatly suffer from desiccation on land were it not for the safety valve of a reduced urine flow , which passes much of its water content back into the body ) . |
| 16 | In the first quarter of 1980 the ICI group was making profits at a rate of six hundred million pounds a year and in the third quarter we posted a loss for only the second time in our history . |
| 17 | The sediment would allow diffusion at a rate of only I metre per 10 years , and ocean circulation would take 100 years to introduce radionuclides into the human environment once radionuclides enter the water column . |
| 18 | A new machine can provide fully finished documents at a rate of 135 prints per minute with , for example , heat seamed binding . |
| 19 | A primordial black hole would release energy at the rate of 6,000 megawatts , equivalent to the output of six large nuclear power plants . |
| 20 | In the current term we are receiving requests at the rate of something like twenty five per week and of course that has the implications both in terms |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | They would start construction at the rate of one a year from 1982 onwards , and they would ideally be PWRs . |
| 23 | Now unscrupulous logging companies assisted by corrupt officials are destroying forests at the rate of 50 million acres a year . |
| 24 | In this action the wife claims maintenance at the rate of £1 10s. a week under the agreement for a period from October 1954 to October 1955 . |
| 25 | At the time of writing , the Soviet republics are declaring independence at the rate of about one a day and it must be open to question whether the entries will come from the separate states rather than the USSR next time . |
| 26 | I am a Windows fan , and can tell you that it runs applications at a rate of knots most folks just are n't accustomed to . |
| 27 | This had meant that couples with incomes in excess of $186,000 paid tax at a rate of 28 per cent , while those in the lower income band , $78,000 to $186,000 , were taxed at 33 per cent . |
| 28 | It supports dictation at a rate of over 30 words per minute , which is quite an improvement on the 20 words per minute rate average clocked up non-touch typing executives . |
| 29 | A neurone will emit impulses at a rate of from zero up to several hundred per second . |
| 30 | The new ore-sorter has over 1000 photoelectric cells to scan rocks at a rate of 500 per second . |