Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at a [adj] rate " in BNC.
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| 1 | The steel tracks ground along at a steady rate , flattening glorious highly-finned autos , scattering pedestrians and levelling lampposts . |
| 2 | By ruling in favour of the appellant , a schoolmaster at Malvern College , whose two sons were educated there at a concessionary rate , the Lords have avoided what has been described as an ‘ administrative nightmare ’ . |
| 3 | erm and the North Koreans were going backwards at a vast rate of knots and in came the Chinese the Chinese army , it stood at that time I think at twenty five million men erm and , and Douglas started losing again , sad really is n't it ? |
| 4 | We set off at a rattling rate , presumably to put some distance between us and the dozens of others still ponderously selecting items of clothing from their car boots , and I commenced my belligerence with a few barbed remarks about the pace-setting . |
| 5 | Smoking is on a steady decline among both men and women — but men pack up at a faster rate than women . |
| 6 | Meanwhile behind him John Thorne was desperately trying to provide some company , for Spartan Missile was running on at a tremendous rate . |
| 7 | Reaction to their two recently-rescued Sam Powell ales , formerly brewed by the Sam Powell Brewery in Newtown , Powys , is also very encouraging , with repeat orders coming in at a good rate . |
| 8 | Less than 36 hours after the discovery of the body , facts were coming in at a fair rate , though it was still not possible to decide which were relevant and which not . |
| 9 | ‘ These drills run at a tremendous speed , ’ the father said , ‘ so when I switch on the drill the mileage numbers on the speedo spin backwards at a fantastic rate . |
| 10 | Smaller animals tend to have higher metabolic rates , just as the engines of small cars tend to turn over at a higher rate than those of larger cars . |
| 11 | Young Ian Fletcher scored two touchdowns from full-back , and Dave McKee , Stuart Munro and Trevor Carmichael had the others , as West kept the scoreboard ticking over at a steady rate throughout the match . |
| 12 | Neat salt , put on at a light rate of spread is just enough to de-ice the road surface . |
| 13 | We found that the wound margin moves in at a steady rate of 10–15μm per hour , and the wound is closed within 18 to 24 hours . |
| 14 | With a zoom , however , it is larger when the angle is wide and the lens is at a short setting ( eg 25mm ) and becomes smaller as the focal length increases — the beam of light , originally wide , is ‘ squashed ’ within the longer tube and becomes narrower , while distances between camera and mirror and between mirror and screen remain the same ( the screen would have to move backwards at a measured rate for the image to stay the same size ) . |
| 15 | When the satellite is busy messages queue up and are sent out at a steady rate . |
| 16 | In a cup of tea , the particles whizz round at a great rate ; in the mantle the flow is so slow that it would be barely perceptible over the course of a human lifetime . |