Example sentences of "[adv prt] at [art] [adj] rate " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our UK customers first began to look shaky and soon afterwards began to shut down at an alarming rate . |
| 2 | But with the industry in recession , and record sales dropping , the hitherto dependable cashflow was trickling down at an alarming rate . |
| 3 | Reaction to their two recently-rescued Sam Powell ales , formerly brewed by the Sam Powell Brewery in Newtown , Powys , is also very encouraging , with repeat orders coming in at a good rate . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Less than 36 hours after the discovery of the body , facts were coming in at a fair rate , though it was still not possible to decide which were relevant and which not . |
| 6 | Towards the end of 1989 film and TV scripts were flooding in at an unprecedented rate , spurred on by her successful debut live tour , the incredible success , even by her standards , of her second album ‘ Enjoy Yourself ’ which entered the British LP charts at number one on its first day of release in October that year and the much-anticipated release of The Delinquents . |
| 7 | There 's been talk of seventeen and a half per cent being added to food , to public transport and to books and its now believed that VAT on domestic fuel , which was to have been introduced in stages may come in at the full rate in the spring . |
| 8 | Admission rates were £4 for adults , £concessionary , with further concessionary rates of £10 for a family ( 2+2 ) and a ‘ bring a pensioner ’ scheme whereby anyone bringing a pensioner ( or a child ) could get in at the concessionary rate . |
| 9 | The steel tracks ground along at a steady rate , flattening glorious highly-finned autos , scattering pedestrians and levelling lampposts . |
| 10 | Young Ian Fletcher scored two touchdowns from full-back , and Dave McKee , Stuart Munro and Trevor Carmichael had the others , as West kept the scoreboard ticking over at a steady rate throughout the match . |
| 11 | We set off at a rattling rate , presumably to put some distance between us and the dozens of others still ponderously selecting items of clothing from their car boots , and I commenced my belligerence with a few barbed remarks about the pace-setting . |
| 12 | New sub-disciplines are taking off at an extraordinary rate , associated in particular with the integration of computer systems into society 's systems of communication , management and finance . |
| 13 | The human race is eating them up at a staggering rate . |
| 14 | The principle horrified hi-fi buffs when it was first announced , because it chopped the sound wave up at an ultrasonic rate and described each ‘ slice ’ as a binary number . |
| 15 | At the beginning of the thirties it must have seemed as if the world was opening up at an astonishing rate , but by the end of the decade it had closed to all but those on active military service . |
| 16 | Torch batteries were being bought up at an alarming rate . |
| 17 | When the satellite is busy messages queue up and are sent out at a steady rate . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Moreover once inflation has levelled out at an acceptable rate , aggregate demand can be expanded once again with the result that the actual unemployment rate will fall back towards NAIRU . |
| 20 | Chiswell Street is quiet and sedate nowadays but two hundred years ago it was the powerhouse for the Whitbread brewery which churned out Porter , the dark beer named after the London market porters who knocked it back at a fearsome rate early in the morning . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Meanwhile behind him John Thorne was desperately trying to provide some company , for Spartan Missile was running on at a tremendous rate . |
| 23 | Neat salt , put on at a light rate of spread is just enough to de-ice the road surface . |
| 24 | In a cup of tea , the particles whizz round at a great rate ; in the mantle the flow is so slow that it would be barely perceptible over the course of a human lifetime . |