Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] at the [adj] rate " in BNC.
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| 1 | If all the health authorities performed at the same rate as the top 25 per cent. , an additional 186,000 patients could be treated at no extra cost . |
| 2 | Interestingly , not all rhythms develop at the same rate . |
| 3 | Sales rose 11 p.c. to £314m in 1991 and profits grew at the same rate , to £13.4m before taxation . |
| 4 | The measured settling velocities are converted into ‘ equivalent sedimentation diameters ’ , or the diameters of spheres settling at the same rate as the natural particles being tested ( Gibbs , Matthews & link , 1971 ) . |
| 5 | Note that if you take Kugelbaum 's football and let all the pentagons expand at the same rate and at the expense of the Ts until every T has shrunk to a point you will be left with a regular dodecahedron , having 12 pentagonal faces . |
| 6 | The proportion of allowances paid at the highest rate ( in ‘ haute montagne ’ ) in 1981 was only 5% ; 78% in the ‘ montagne ’ zone and 16% in the ‘ piedmont ’ zone . |
| 7 | Nor did the post-war trends happen at the same rate in every medium . |
| 8 | Official figures out yesterday indicated that British consumers saved at the lowest rate for 31 years while living standards actually declined 0.6 per cent between the first and second quarters of the year . |