Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] at the rate " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | For erosion to continue at the rates noted above it is necessary that the material supplied by the cliff should be transported away by the sea : otherwise there may be formed extensive beaches , spits , bars and comparable forms , which dissipate the energy of the waves and prevent , at least temporarily , the base of the cliff being attacked . |
| 4 | ‘ Did you know ’ , Matilda said suddenly , ‘ that the heart of a mouse beats at the rate of six hundred and fifty times a minute ? ’ |
| 5 | The waste arrives at the rate of up to seven tanker-loads every day — that is seven lorries passing thousands of doorsteps . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was a route she chose originally because she did not have enough capital to expand at the rate business demanded . |
| 11 | where loss , misdelivery or damage , however sustained , is in respect of the whole of the Consignment , to a sum calculated at the rate of £800 per tonne on either the gross weight of the Consignment or , where applicable , the tonnage computed in accordance with Condition 8(2) ( a ) or ( b ) hereof : |
| 12 | In effect , the Bank is making available that quantity of monetary base necessary to support the flow of bank lending at the rate of interest of its own choosing . |
| 13 | The extra gravitational attraction of such a large number of black holes could explain why our galaxy rotates at the rate it does : the mass of the visible stars is insufficient to account for this . |