Example sentences of "[vb -s] at a [adj] rate " in BNC.
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| 1 | In every case the estimate of β was markedly higher for the period closer to delivery , i.e. volatility declines at a faster rate in the fifty days just before delivery . |
| 2 | With a star of greater mass , everything happens at an accelerated rate , and the star 's active life is much shorter than with our sedate Sun . |
| 3 | A. This argues that , since information arrives at an uneven rate , the observed distribution of futures price changes ( or returns ) will be a mixture of a number of normal distributions , and this observed distribution will be leptokurtic . |
| 4 | THE BACTERIUM E. coli ( above ) grows at a phenomenal rate . |
| 5 | The shell has a mathematically simple form , and , roughly speaking , its shape can be understood as the result of a that organ , the mantle , which itself grows at a variable rate but secretes minerals at a rate proportional to the length of its periphery . |
| 6 | No firm grows at a constant rate throughout its life , so while the earnings model in the last subsection gives simple and convenient formulae for the share price , it is not very realistic . |
| 7 | The creature grows at an alarming rate , then escapes and cuts a swathe of destruction as it moves through the southern Italian countryside . |
| 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 task is to follow lead car , which also appears on the screen , and travels at a varying rate . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | As output and sales rise , so does total cost and , in this example , total cost rises at a constant rate from £220,000 when 40,000 units are produced to £700,000 when 200,000 units are produced . |
| 12 | Because incense burns at an even rate and without flame , it is well suited for measuring the division of the religious day and for other purposes . |
| 13 | Subsequently the widths of the linear magnetic zones were related to the duration of each successive epoch of normal and reversed polarity on the assumption that the ocean floor spreads at a constant rate away from mid-oceanic ridges . |
| 14 | But after death , the amount of radiocarbon decreases at a fixed rate : it halves every 5730 years . |
| 15 | ‘ A deferred rate mortgage is one where the mortgage is charged all the time at the normal APR , but the consumer only pays at a reduced rate during the early years , ’ Mr Ellis explained . |
| 16 | The packet-switch bus uses slight changes in Voltage to determine binary 0 and 1 and operates at a sustained rate of 200Mbps on the Sparcserver 1000 . |
| 17 | The packet-switch bus uses slight changes in voltage to determine binary 0 and 1 and operates at a sustained rate of 200Mbps on the Sparcserver 1000 . |
| 18 | The high sales volume overseas , around 60% of total output , continues at an encouraging rate . |
| 19 | A worker 's average earnings are £100 per week , all of which he spends at an even rate throughout each period . |
| 20 | The performance of computers improves at an astounding rate , perhaps unlike any other machine in the world . |
| 21 | By measuring the trace amounts of radioactive carbon in coral skeletons , which decays at a known rate , he could work out the ages of the corals at different depths in his boreholes . |
| 22 | 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 . |