Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Northampton Town , languishing since Chapman 's departure and losing money at the rate of £30 a week , were open to offers for Fanny Walden . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Such holes hardly deserve the epithet black : they really are white hot and are emitting energy at a rate of about ten thousand megawatts . |
| 6 | It was certainly not a prohibition on lending money at a rate of interest which can be earned by the recipient . |
| 7 | 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% . |
| 8 | Offshore trading companies are liable to pay tax at a rate of 5% . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A primordial black hole would release energy at the rate of 6,000 megawatts , equivalent to the output of six large nuclear power plants . |
| 12 | They would start construction at the rate of one a year from 1982 onwards , and they would ideally be PWRs . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |