Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] [art] rate of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each night the Falcons depart from over 130 major market areas , jetting packages to a computerised sorting centre at Memphis , where they are sorted at the rate of 10,000 per hour . |
| 2 | The number of workers on the land has been shrinking at the rate of nearly 20000 per year , although this has not occurred in a completely uniform fashion . |
| 3 | We saw awful conditions in Bouzoulouk , where , out of a population of 35,000 they are dying at the rate of 100 a day . |
| 4 | By the weekend , around 50 flights will have been made at the rate of one every 2 hours and the deployment will be complete . |
| 5 | But in the developing world the rate of increase in food production has been exceeded by the rate of increase of the population , and now there is not enough food being produced in the developing world for the local population . |
| 6 | In the 1950s and early 1960s the , then , Ministry of Public Buildings and Works ( now English Heritage ) sponsored the rescue excavation of a considerable number of cemeteries , but the enthusiasm of that support has not been matched by the rate of publication , to the extent that it is very difficult to comment on excavation methods during that period . |
| 7 | Lakewood guitars are designed by one Martin Seeliger , and they 're built at the rate of about twenty-five per week in a town called Geissen in Germany , an hour or so up the autobahn from Frankfurt . |
| 8 | You 're accelerating at a rate of four hundred miles per hour per hour . |
| 9 | iXOS , founded in 1988 by Hans Strach Zimmerman , formerly with Siemens AG , and Eberhard Faerber , founder of Peripherie Computer Systeme GmbH , is a privately-held company that has been growing at a rate of 50% per year , and employs 110 staff . |
| 10 | iXOS , founded in 1988 by Hans Strach Zimmerman ( ex Siemens ) and Eberhard Faerber ( founder of PCS Computer Systems ) , is a privately-owned company that has been growing at a rate of 50% per year , employs 110 staff . |
| 11 | Like the stately swan gliding serenely over the water , few suspect that under the surface the legs and feet are going at a rate of knots , with the result that the following items are in the pipeline , if not already attended to : — |
| 12 | House prices in Greater London have been rising at a rate of around 15 to 18 per cent over the past couple of years . |
| 13 | Games are played at a rate of 40 moves each in two hours thinking time followed by 20 moves in subsequent hours . |
| 14 | Although statistics show that many benefits paid to the old , poor and unemployed have maintained their real value ( ie kept pace with inflation ) under the Conservative government during the 1980s , these calculations are based on the rate of inflation for the average person . |
| 15 | The water levels of the China Sea are rising at the rate of approximately 1-2 mm per year , according to the National Natural Science Foundation of Beijing . |
| 16 | The books have been stolen at the rate of twenty or thirty a day . |
| 17 | They are linked to the rate of inflation in the retail price index ( RPI ) . |
| 18 | Therefore , the apparently low coupons offered , between 2 and 3 per cent , have to be adjusted by the rate of inflation to obtain the nominal coupon and hence the actual amount of cash paid out . |
| 19 | Earlier this month , people were reported to be dying at the rate of 30 a day from hunger and the effects of Serb shelling . |
| 20 | At one point earlier this month townspeople were reported to be dying at the rate of 30 a day from shellfire and starvation . |
| 21 | $10,000,000 or more — about 3,600 companies — would either be taxed at a rate of 0.175 per cent of their capital base or have to pay a 3 per cent corporate tax surcharge , whichever was higher . |
| 22 | Data can be transferred at a rate of 6Gb per hour . |
| 23 | The tax would be levied at a rate of 15 per cent on petrol and 18 per cent on diesel oil . |
| 24 | The tax would be levied at the rate of the equivalent of US$3 per barrel of oil in 1993 , rising by $1 a year to a maximum of $10 per barrel in 2000 — the EC target date for the stabilization of carbon dioxide emissions at 1990 levels . |
| 25 | The tax will be levied at the rate of $3 per barrel of oil equivalent in 1993 , rising by $1 a year to a maximum of $10 per barrel in 2000 — the EC target date for the stabilization of carbon dioxide emissions at 1990 levels . |
| 26 | The tax will be levied at the rate of 25.7 cents per million British thermal units ( BTUs ) on heating fuels and at 59.9 cents per million BTUs for transport oil . |
| 27 | Mr Lamont forecasts that the economy will be growing at the rate of three per cent per year in 12 months ' time ; he would have carried more conviction , if he had not made the same ‘ jam tomorrow ’ forecast a year ago . |
| 28 | N ( d 1 ) may be interpreted as the rate of change of the option price divided by the rate of change of the share price . |
| 29 | In the event that the Director is required to provide his services in excess of five days after 22 December 1989 , then it is agreed that he shall be reimbursed at the rate of £200 per diem . |
| 30 | At one stage the waters of Oulton Broad were reported to be rising at a rate of eight inches an hour . |