Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at [art] rate of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The balance of relief will continue to be given annually at the rate of 4% of the original cost of the building from the tax year in which it is brought into use . |
| 2 | By the end of the month the French , United Kingdom and United States governments had committed troops to maintain " safe havens " within Iraq , despite the latter 's condemnation , and UN relief agencies confirmed on April 29 that Kurdish refugees who had fled Iraq were returning home at the rate of 20,000 a day . |
| 3 | If the world 's 1984 stockpile of nuclear weapons were compressed into bombs of the size dropped on Hiroshima , it would take 4,600 years to go through them all if they were let off at the rate of one a day . |
| 4 | Nitrates should be in single figures and water changes should be carried out at the rate of 20% each week for the time being . |
| 5 | This may have embarrassed Loughborough 's Richard Wareham , the tight-head who played in the England Under-21 front row when they hammered Romania in Bucharest last May , and the youngsters continued to go backwards at a rate of knots in tight and loose . |
| 6 | The patient was asked to breathe deeply at a rate of six breaths/minute , the inspiration lasting for four seconds , the expiration for six seconds . |
| 7 | Pitch , of course , gets progressively softer as it is heated , and similarly , since the rocks of the mantle are also at high temperatures — the temperature in the earth increases downwards at a rate of about 30 degrees C per kilometre — they can also be thought of as being rather ‘ soft ’ . |
| 8 | Chapman has a phenomenal record for Leeds , scoring regularly at the rate of one every two games . |
| 9 | Here the drill rig , which after numerous delays had only recently arrived from the mining camps of Northern Quebec , was boring downwards at a rate of about 30 m per day . |
| 10 | The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere , rising today at a rate of about 1 part per million per year , and standing at around 335 ppm , plays an important role in determining the surface temperature of the Earth , because the gas traps infrared radiation . |
| 11 | It meets the River Lyon and the rivers pour in at a rate of 370 cubic metres a second . |
| 12 | During this first period ( up to 1750 ) of relatively slow and uneven growth , trusts were set up at a rate of only eight a year and were concentrated largely around London , radiating especially to the north and west and into the Midlands . |
| 13 | We have setpiece debates on the European Community budget — we had one in only 90 minutes last week , which worked out at a rate of about half a billion pounds per minute of our debate . |
| 14 | Such claims in fact are quite rare , running currently at the rate of about 400 a year ( Freedman et al. , 1988 , p. 53 ) . |
| 15 | During April 1856 , after a period when , it seems , no head dresser was overseeing , his son John took over at a rate of about £5 : 4s. : 0d. , which figure was apparently dependent upon the weather . |
| 16 | During the period 80 to SOMaBP it drifted rapidly at a rate of between 100 and 180 mm a- 1 . |
| 17 | Fairbanks found that when sea level first began to rise as the ice sheets melted , 17,000 years ago , it did so at a rate of about 4mm per year . |
| 18 | It did so at the rate of 4–7 in ( 10–18 cm ) per year until it collided with the Laurasian land mass ( North America and Eurasia , which were then joined ) . |
| 19 | The sediment at the bottom of the sea permits nuclear waste to leak out at the rate of 1 metre per 10000 years not 10 years as appeared in last week 's article ( Technology , 17 February , p 442 ) . |
| 20 | The ECOTEC-V6 engine will be churned out at the rate of 135,000 a year when the plant is on full stream . |
| 21 | Each time you fill the bath , the water flows in at the rate of 15 litres per minute through the cold tap and 12 litres per minute through the hot tap ( when they are fully turned on ) . |
| 22 | To prevent acidosis due to the operative trauma an infusion of a glucose-bicarbonate solution ( see below ) was given intra-arterially at a rate of 0.03 ml.min - 1 . |
| 23 | The Allies then presented Germany with a bill for US & dollar 32 billion to be paid off at a rate of & dollar 500 million dollars per year . |
| 24 | The adjectives were read out at a rate of one every three seconds . |