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

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1 In the standard account of expansionary monetary policy illustrated in Figure 7.6 , the economy is seen to move from point A to point B very quickly owing to the immediate impact that the increase in the supply of money has upon the rate of interest .
2 ( 2 ) Throughout your occupation you will pay rent calculated at the rate of £ per annum payable on demand in advance ( but periodic demands shall not convert this tenancy into a periodic tenancy ) .
3 The assumptions used in these valuations vary according to local conditions , but depend heavily upon the assumed excess of investment returns over the rate of increase in pensionable pay .
4 This was followed by pamidronate in 500 mL 5% dextrose infused at a rate of 15 mg/h .
5 In most ERCP patients , hypoxia can be avoided by intranasal oxygen given at a rate of 4–5 litres per minute .
6 Had the national insurance pensions been increased by an additional £5 a week over and above the inflation rate , and supplementary benefit uprated by the rate of inflation only , then virtually all of the 1.4 million claimants would no longer be entitled to supplementary benefit .
7 As already stated , well beyond cut-off their attenuation increases at a rate of 20n dB per decade of frequency .
8 And with beer drinking declining at the rate of 10 per cent in the South East and five per cent in the North , breweries have realised they must cut prices .
9 ‘ Did you know ’ , Matilda said suddenly , ‘ that the heart of a mouse beats at the rate of six hundred and fifty times a minute ? ’
10 The waste arrives at the rate of up to seven tanker-loads every day — that is seven lorries passing thousands of doorsteps .
11 If these rates were maintained then , with population growing at the rate of 1 per cent a year , each generation could expect to be roughly twice as well off as its parents and four times as well off as its grandparents .
12 Engineers have recently scaled up the process to separate at a rate of a few milligrams per hour .
13 Less understandable was the willingness to allow the duty on diesel to rise by the rate of inflation rather than slash it .
14 Saline ( 0.9% NaCl , wt/wt ) was continuously infused into a jugular veing at a rate of 1.5 ml/h to avoid dehydration .
15 This interpretation is supported by the relationship observed between the rate of movement of individual plates and the length of subduction zones along their margins .
16 Throughout the nineteenth century output per person grew at a rate of 1.5 per cent per annum .
17 If inflation continued at the rate of 5% per annum , then by 1 January , 1992 each £100 original nominal value of the bond would be worth £110.25 and the interest due thereon in that year would be £2.205 .
18 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 .
19 In addition the section indicated that the intuitive explanation of N ( d 1 ) was that it was equal to the rate of change in the cell price divided by the rate of change in the share price : .
20 The effectiveness of this method depends on the rate of reaction between the odorant and the ozone and is not suitable therefore for odour abatement where the rate of reaction is too slow .
21 Note that , although the current approach to monetary policy focuses on the rate of interest in order to affect the demand for money , this approach is still backed up by measures to control the money supply .
22 Sampson and Wooldredge ( 1987 ) , made elegant use of the data from the 1982 British Crime Survey and found that the probability of burglary victimisation and household theft victimisation increased with the rate of local unemployment .
23 Thus , to give one case example in ten thousand that spring to mind , no psychiatrist in his right mind would pay credence or even attention to the findings , as uncovered by Hans Eysenck some years ago , that patients undergoing psychoanalysis have an improvement rate of 44 per cent , those subject to the effects of other psychotherapy recover at the rate of 64 per cent , and those to whom nothing whatever is done , who receive no treatment at all , are cured at a rate of 72 per cent .
24 The new bill provided for a rate of 31 per cent for both groups , and as a result established three income tax rates of 15 , 28 , and 31 per cent .
25 His first job was to calculate when they should finish , how long they should take to plough the whole field , each man ploughing at the rate of three-quarters of an acre in one day .
26 Probability of life arising on a planet ( in , say , a billion years ) , if we assume that life arises at a rate of about once per solar system .
27 Probability of life arising on a planet if life arises at a rate of about once per galaxy .
28 The energy confinement time is the total thermal content of the hot gas divided by the rate of loss of energy from all causes .
29 The wave propagated at a rate of 3–10μms r-1 .
30 Sir John , delivering the annual lecture to the Graduate School of Environmental Studies , said people and ecosystems would have difficulty adapting to the rates of change , but scientists needed to learn more about the likely effects before countries would know how to respond .
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