Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] [prep] the rate " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each night the Falcons depart from over 130 major market areas , jetting packages to a computerised sorting centre at Memphis , where they are sorted at the rate of 10,000 per hour . |
| 2 | We saw awful conditions in Bouzoulouk , where , out of a population of 35,000 they are dying at the rate of 100 a day . |
| 3 | The benefits paid from the fund are taxed at the rate appropriate to the pensioner 's circumstances . |
| 4 | Lakewood guitars are designed by one Martin Seeliger , and they 're built at the rate of about twenty-five per week in a town called Geissen in Germany , an hour or so up the autobahn from Frankfurt . |
| 5 | Although statistics show that many benefits paid to the old , poor and unemployed have maintained their real value ( ie kept pace with inflation ) under the Conservative government during the 1980s , these calculations are based on the rate of inflation for the average person . |
| 6 | The water levels of the China Sea are rising at the rate of approximately 1-2 mm per year , according to the National Natural Science Foundation of Beijing . |
| 7 | They are linked to the rate of inflation in the retail price index ( RPI ) . |
| 8 | Over £40,000 , all deals are charged at the rate of 0.25% ; maximum commission is £250 . |
| 9 | Despite a 15-year ban on trading in rhino horn , numbers of black rhinos has fallen from around 65,000 in 1977 to 2,500 ; numbers are falling at the rate of 28 per cent a year . |
| 10 | They contribute 14 per cent of the greenhouse effect and are increasing at the rate of 6 per cent a year . |
| 11 | And yet these species are vanishing at the rate of one every half hour , before we can even identify and research them . |
| 12 | SMALL BUSINESSES are collapsing at the rate of one every 10 minutes . |
| 13 | Scotch Whisky 's decline has now accelerated to the extent that sales in the UK are collapsing at the rate of 1 million cases per annum . |
| 14 | Businesses are collapsing at the rate 76 a day with a total of 7,014 company insolvencies in the three months to the end of September , according to the British Chambers of Commerce . |
| 15 | Businesses are collapsing at the rate 76 a day with a total of 7,014 company insolvencies in the three months to the end of September , according to the British Chambers of Commerce . |
| 16 | New figures out today from the British Chambers of Commerce show that businesses are collapsing at the rate of 76 a day . |
| 17 | Utah 's renowned salt flats are disappearing at the rate of 1 per cent a year , and may disappear completely within decades . |
| 18 | Forests in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro are disappearing at the rate of one football field in area every hour , according to the environmental protection group SOS Mata Atlantica . |