Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] rate " in BNC.

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1 This requires that capital and labour grow at the same rate ; i.e. , and .
2 In other words , the real cost of employing labour rose at the same rate as productivity — over 3 per cent a year ( figure 8.3 ) .
3 By subjecting the specimen to a tensile force applied at a uniform rate and measuring the resulting deformation , a curve of the type shown in figure 13.6 can be constructed .
4 According to the Board 's economics expert , Frank Jenkin , if the nuclear industry operated under the minimum rate of return on capital expected in the private sector ( 8 per cent ) , Hinkley C would be ‘ clearly less economic ’ than coal .
5 Phillips 's omission of a price expectations term from his original study may have been warranted in practice owing to the low rates of inflation which were experienced from the Great War onwards ; but when it comes to analyzing inflationary processes in general it is invalid .
6 You can protect yourself against future rises in interest rates by means of a hedging instrument known as a forward rate agreement , or FRA .
7 If your employee qualifies for the higher rate , it should be paid for the first six weeks that higher rate SMP is due .
8 Almost all studies show that acid secretion remains at the same rate .
9 It is the Crown case the club was run as a business , yet for compensation purposes during a redevelopment scheme , was said to be a members club entitled to a higher rate of compensation .
10 It is also possible of course for there to be uncertainty attached to the forward rate , which could lead to the reverse inequality in ( 5.42 ) holding .
11 Turning to the labour market comparison suggested above , Friedman allows for rates of growth in the short run to deviate from the natural rate .
12 The movement could never be separated from political questions whatever its leaders wanted , for the question of non-conforming raised the question of establishment , itself a political question dating to the anti-church rate campaigns of the 1830s and the creation of the British Anti-State Church Society by Edward Miall in 1844 .
13 So all in all an excellent result for Washroom which now looks to be a good stable portfolio increasing at a respectable rate .
14 Migration continued at an undiminished rate through the seventies .
15 Between April and June 1971 speculation against the dollar ran at an annual rate of $14 billion .
16 One of the major achievements of the journeymen in the nineteenth century had been to succeed in having both kinds of work paid at the same rate .
17 Capitalists were also unwilling to accept the decline in accumulation implied by the falling rate of profit .
18 Since the universe would already be expanding just as in the hot big bang model , the repulsive effective of this cosmological constant would therefore have made the universe expand at an ever-increasing rate .
19 The body of a young child works at the maximum rate , enabling the child to process far more information in a given time than an adult could .
20 It is a biological catalyst , a catalyst being something that encourages a chemical reaction to proceed at a faster rate than it would do normally .
21 Revised figures show that Britain 's GDP rose at an annual rate of 1.4% in the first quarter , up from the original estimate of 1.1% .
22 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 .
23 If we now look at what happens to total product between O and O L 1 units of labour and we can see total product rising at an increasing rate , right , which implies our marginal product positive but increases over that range O to L L 1 right , between the the range O L 1 and O L 3 , right , the total product is rising but at a decreasing rate a decreasing rate that implies that the marginal product is still positive , right , but falling .
24 Let us look at those towns that grew up in the midst of their own open fields , that entered the nineteenth century with their population rising at a phenomenal rate , but were wholly unable to expand their building area to meet this rise in numbers .
25 However , it has been judicially observed that the objection to a rent representing a percentage of the tenant 's turnover is that , if the price of a commodity rises at a faster rate than the cost of living , pressure is likely to develop on dealers in that commodity to reduce their margin of profit or rate of commission ( Naylor v Uttoxeter UDC ( 1974 ) 231 EG 619 per Brightman J ) .
26 What is more , when inflation is taken into account , the present middle-income earners have relatively less disposable income under the present higher tax rate of 60% than they did under the old regime of tax charged at the highest rate of 83% such is the falling-behind effect of tax allowances granted in recent years .
27 Since the human population increased by a similar rate , according to the statistics there was a constant proportion of about three persons for each head of cattle .
28 In the past two quarters manufacturing output per man-hour fell by an annual rate of 1.1% , roughly the same as in previous recessions , but non-manufacturing productivity — a good proxy for services — rose by an annualised 1.2% compared with a typical decline of 1.5% in past recessions .
29 Normally if tax is paid under Pay As You Earn , the tax deducted at the basic rate will be correct .
30 A lengthening of the lags in equations ( 3.34 ) and the lengthening of the period covered in the forward rate will not change the type of restrictions imposed , but they will greatly complicate them .
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