Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] at a [adj] rate " in BNC.
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| 1 | You borrow at a fixed rate of interest and repay the loan over a number of years . |
| 2 | Furthermore , the wages of artisans , although they moved at a different rate , followed the same general pattern of increasing real values at approximately the same dates . |
| 3 | In warm weather they reproduce at a prodigious rate , smothering not only waterlilies , but other succulent aquatics and causing widespread disfiguration of flowers and foliage . |
| 4 | One reason for them being so common is that they reproduce at a high rate , and their high reproduction rate is one of the main topics of this chapter . |
| 5 | And that means they arrive at a slower rate ! ’ |
| 6 | They marched at a tremendous rate in all sorts of uniforms — one of them had amazing cherry-red trousers — and all their clothing was marked with big red patches . |
| 7 | It expanded at a rapid rate , the early ‘ Saucepan ’ sets being replaced by cheap transistor sets which could be operated with less expensive batteries . |
| 8 | The difficulty with this anemone is that once established it reproduces at a tremendous rate and literally swamps the aquarium with large numbers of offspring . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Carbon 14 is a radioactive isotope of carbon that is absorbed by all living things ; the proportion of carbon 14 to other isotopes of carbon remains constant , but when something dies , the carbon 14 in it decays at a known rate , while the other isotopes stay the same . |