Example sentences of "[verb] at a [adj] rate [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The method of carbon dating is based on the assumption that these two reactions have been occurring at a constant rate for the past 15000 years . |
| 2 | The simplest models assume that earnings grow at a constant rate of g per cent per year . |
| 3 | In every case the estimate of β was markedly higher for the period closer to delivery , i.e. volatility declines at a faster rate in the fifty days just before delivery . |
| 4 | Amounts over this are taxed at a single rate of 40 per cent . |
| 5 | In the 1993 edition of its US Industrial Outlook , the Commerce Department in Washington is predicting that book sales will grow at a faster rate in 1993 than they did in 1992 , says BP Report . |
| 6 | Social security employee contributions , a payroll tax levied at a flat rate of 7.65 per cent on the first $51,300 of an individual 's earned income , were paid into trust funds and used to finance retirement benefits and Medicare — health-care programmes for the elderly . |
| 7 | It is a universal charge , levied at a flat rate for all individuals over the age of 18 living in the local authority area . |
| 8 | ( Income tax is levied at a basic rate of 25 per cent and a higher rate of 40 per cent — correct as of 1990 budget . ) |
| 9 | Another member , after referring to the particular reference in the Financial Secretary 's statement to airline and railway employees , asked whether the same distinction applied to services provided by hotel companies to their employees — that is , to rooms which are freely available for the general public in hotels being offered at a concessionary rate to employees of the hotel group . |
| 10 | The package will be offered at a competitive rate in the medium price range for such a product . |
| 11 | We turned on a pre-arranged course and climbed at a predetermined rate of feed per minute at a certain airspeed . |
| 12 | To solve the problem , pulses are produced at a precise rate of 32,768 per second ( 32.768kHz ) by means of a crystal controlled oscillator . |
| 13 | Communication by electronic means is growing at a rapid rate throughout industry and government organisations . |
| 14 | If information arrived at a constant rate in calendar time , the approaches using calendar time and event time would be identical . |
| 15 | No firm grows at a constant rate throughout its life , so while the earnings model in the last subsection gives simple and convenient formulae for the share price , it is not very realistic . |
| 16 | During April the movement of magma within the volcano was indicated by a bulge which began to develop on its northeastern flank ; by 23 April this had grown to 100 m and was expanding at a daily rate of 1.5 m . |
| 17 | Finance costs should be recognised at a constant rate on the carrying amount , and that amount will be increased by the finance costs in respect of the period and reduced by payments made . |
| 18 | Valuable coins would naturally be searched for with more energy and so tend to be recovered at a higher rate in ancient times . |
| 19 | As growing organisms incorporate radio-carbon and after death of the organism the trapped radio-carbon begins to decay at a known rate with half lost after 5730 years , it is possible to indicate when death occurred . |
| 20 | As output and sales rise , so does total cost and , in this example , total cost rises at a constant rate from £220,000 when 40,000 units are produced to £700,000 when 200,000 units are produced . |
| 21 | The Paris auction market received a welcome fillip in the first week of April with the announcement that buyer 's premium would be set at a flat rate of 9% . |
| 22 | In these circumstances , it is not surprising to find that population loss from inner areas has been running at a lower rate in the 1980s and that the government 's efforts at introducing more private investment have met with some measure of success . |
| 23 | In accordance with the definitions set out in paragraphs 8 and 14 of the [ draft ] FRS , the interest for the full term of the convertible debt should be taken into account in the allocation of finance costs , which should be allocated at a constant rate in accordance with paragraph 25 . [ |
| 24 | The escudo was fixed at a central rate of 178.735 escudos to the ECU . |
| 25 | Subsequently , an apparently very different kind of proarrhythmic response occurred : patients died at a constant rate during the 10-month treatment period with flecainide and encainide , and the mortality paralleled the number of observed ischaemic episodes . |
| 26 | Provided there is a demand for bank lending at a profitable rate of interest , we can see why it will always be difficult for the authorities to control monetary expansion . |
| 27 | They make profits by lending at a higher rate of interest than the rate they pay on deposits . |
| 28 | Low overwinter fine root mortality , relative to growing season mortality , might be due to low maintenance respiration rates under cold soil temperatures , but it is unclear why roots produced in the 1989 growing season should continue to die at a slower rate during the 1990 growing season . |
| 29 | It is probably significant that manufacturing employment fell at a slower rate in the North than in the South from 1984 to 1987 , and was estimated to have increased from 1987 to 1989 . |
| 30 | The story of the railways is intimately tied up with the wider saga of the industrialization of Europe , and it proceeded at a different rate in each country . |