Example sentences of "[adv prt] at a [adj] rate of " in BNC.
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| 1 | We found that the wound margin moves in at a steady rate of 10–15μm per hour , and the wound is closed within 18 to 24 hours . |
| 2 | Profits are made by lending money out at a higher rate of interest than that paid to depositors . |
| 3 | When the late Conservative administration did its sums at the end of 1963 it found that its future programme worked out at an annual rate of increase of 4.1 per cent . |
| 4 | Public money will be used to lend up to £420 a year to students in full-time higher education , which they will pay back at an inflation-linked rate of interest . |
| 5 | Neat salt , put on at a light rate of spread is just enough to de-ice the road surface . |