Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] at a [adj] rate " in BNC.
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| 1 | One mechanical method of damping the single-step response is to introduce additional viscous friction ( torque proportional to speed ) , so that the rotor oscillations decay at a faster rate ( Kent , 1973 ) . |
| 2 | Media-only appointments increased at a faster rate than those involving creative and full service during the year . |
| 3 | The mines were going off too early , but aniseed balls placed between contacts proved effective , for aniseed balls dissolve at a constant rate no matter what the temperature . |
| 4 | When the Netherlands is the seat of war , all the peasants grow rich , for they pay no rent when the enemy is in the country , and provisions sell at a high rate . ’ |
| 5 | The simplest models assume that earnings grow at a constant rate of g per cent per year . |
| 6 | These " Kerr " black holes rotate at a constant rate , their size and shape depending only on their mass and rate of rotation . |
| 7 | In the twentieth century official statistics showed the number of cattle rising at a slower rate than the number of people . |
| 8 | The eggs hatch and the tadpoles develop at a spectacular rate . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Other genes change at a higher rate , presumably because natural selection is more tolerant of variations in them . |
| 11 | In gases , there is plenty of space for particles to spread at a rapid rate . |
| 12 | The strategy could not make , nor sustain if it could , the ceteris paribus conditions such as the idea of a perfect vacuum in which objects fall at a constant rate of acceleration whatever their size and shape . |
| 13 | Services offered at a discounted rate include : |
| 14 | We 'll make the poor Weavers work at a low rate ; We 'll find fault where there 's no fault , and so we will bate ; If trading goes dead , we will presently show it ; But if it grows bad , they shall never know it ; We 'll tell them that cloth beyond sea will not go , We care not whether we keep clothing or no . |
| 15 | 5.4 ( in brackets ) for the years 1984 to 1987 , the North 's factory jobs declined at a lesser rate than in the South . |