Example sentences of "[vb past] at [art] [adj] rate " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , the real cost of employing labour rose at the same rate as productivity — over 3 per cent a year ( figure 8.3 ) . |
| 2 | I can tell him , however , that over the 1980s GDP per head in this country rose at an average rate of nearly 2 per cent . |
| 3 | Revised figures show that Britain 's GDP rose at an annual rate of 1.4% in the first quarter , up from the original estimate of 1.1% . |
| 4 | Prices rose at an annual rate of 4% last month , up from 3.8% in April and their quickest pace of increase since March last year . |
| 5 | Furthermore , the wages of artisans , although they moved at a different rate , followed the same general pattern of increasing real values at approximately the same dates . |
| 6 | We turned on a pre-arranged course and climbed at a predetermined rate of feed per minute at a certain airspeed . |
| 7 | If information arrived at a constant rate in calendar time , the approaches using calendar time and event time would be identical . |
| 8 | The OECD Economic Outlook indicated that the trade deficit in the USA stabilized at an annual rate $5,000 million lower than in the second half of 1988 . |
| 9 | While the country 's heritage vanished at an ever-faster rate , our town centres would sprout cosmeticized precincts and flower boxes and hold congratulatory receptions . |
| 10 | Similarly , it was long obvious that time went at the same rate for every observer , but since Einstein , we have had to accept that time goes at different rates for different observers . |
| 11 | Managers came and went at an alarming rate ; there was Board Room take-over ; gates began to dwindle and the Palace were candidates for relegation from well before Christmas . |
| 12 | Subsequently , an apparently very different kind of proarrhythmic response occurred : patients died at a constant rate during the 10-month treatment period with flecainide and encainide , and the mortality paralleled the number of observed ischaemic episodes . |
| 13 | It is probably significant that manufacturing employment fell at a slower rate in the North than in the South from 1984 to 1987 , and was estimated to have increased from 1987 to 1989 . |
| 14 | The decline was mainly due to lower non-oil imports , which fell at an annual rate of 14% between the fourth quarter of 1990 and the first quarter of this year . |
| 15 | The output of goods and services declined sharply in the fourth quarter ; preliminary estimates suggested that gross national product ( GNP ) in the quarter fell at an annual rate of 2.1 per cent ( after adjustments for inflation and seasonal factors ) , the sharpest fall since the third quarter of 1982 when GNP fell at an annual rate of 3.2 per cent . |
| 16 | The output of goods and services declined sharply in the fourth quarter ; preliminary estimates suggested that gross national product ( GNP ) in the quarter fell at an annual rate of 2.1 per cent ( after adjustments for inflation and seasonal factors ) , the sharpest fall since the third quarter of 1982 when GNP fell at an annual rate of 3.2 per cent . |
| 17 | Sales rose 11 p.c. to £314m in 1991 and profits grew at the same rate , to £13.4m before taxation . |
| 18 | London grew at an astonishing rate , from about 60,000 in 1500 to approximately 200,000 in 1600 and to an enormous 575,000 in 1700 , by which time it was probably the largest city in Europe . |
| 19 | In the fourth quarter of 1992 , the economy grew at an annual rate of 4.7% , which gave a roseate glow to Bill Clinton 's first few weeks in office but always looked too good to last . |
| 20 | The comparative performance of the French economy may be judged more or less favourably , depending on the criteria and the time-frame used , but over the decade of the 1960s as a whole it grew at an annual rate that matched or surpassed the record of most of France 's main trading partners . |
| 21 | The bank 's deposits grew at an explosive rate from £8m in 1891 to £67m by 1908 . |
| 22 | However , most of the next decade was a testimony to the wisdom of the Bretton Woods arrangements since international trade grew at an unprecedented rate . |
| 23 | During the century after the Restoration rural industries such as framework knitting and nailmaking grew at an unprecedented rate and the industrial towns flourished as never before . |
| 24 | Their gig attendances grew at an alarming rate and occasional support spots to The Fall were no longer a viable notion . |
| 25 | The story of the railways is intimately tied up with the wider saga of the industrialization of Europe , and it proceeded at a different rate in each country . |
| 26 | They marched at a tremendous rate in all sorts of uniforms — one of them had amazing cherry-red trousers — and all their clothing was marked with big red patches . |
| 27 | These policies were incorporated into the Fifth Plan , formulated in 1964 and 1965 , which aimed at an annual rate of growth of profits of 8.6 per cent between 1964 and 1970 . |
| 28 | London expanded at a remarkable rate . |
| 29 | It expanded at a rapid rate , the early ‘ Saucepan ’ sets being replaced by cheap transistor sets which could be operated with less expensive batteries . |
| 30 | Total output as measured by real gross national product ( GNP ) expanded at an annual rate of only 0.5 per cent in the final quarter , the smallest rise since mid-1986 , but an unexpected increase of 2.5 per cent in orders for durable goods made it difficult to formulate firm economic forecasts . |