Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] at [art] rate [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Nitrates should be in single figures and water changes should be carried out at the rate of 20% each week for the time being . |
| 3 | It meets the River Lyon and the rivers pour in at a rate of 370 cubic metres a second . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | The ECOTEC-V6 engine will be churned out at the rate of 135,000 a year when the plant is on full stream . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The adjectives were read out at a rate of one every three seconds . |