Example sentences of "[vb base] at a [adj] rate " in BNC.
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| 1 | The simplest models assume that earnings grow at a constant rate of g per cent per year . |
| 2 | Babies do not , as doctors have always believed , grow at a steady rate but in stops and starts — even shooting up by half an inch in 24 hours . |
| 3 | These " Kerr " black holes rotate at a constant rate , their size and shape depending only on their mass and rate of rotation . |
| 4 | One mechanical method of damping the single-step response is to introduce additional viscous friction ( torque proportional to speed ) , so that the rotor oscillations decay at a faster rate ( Kent , 1973 ) . |
| 5 | In warm weather they reproduce at a prodigious rate , smothering not only waterlilies , but other succulent aquatics and causing widespread disfiguration of flowers and foliage . |
| 6 | One reason for them being so common is that they reproduce at a high rate , and their high reproduction rate is one of the main topics of this chapter . |
| 7 | Business starts continue at a high rate , with more than 1,000 per week throughout the spring and summer under enterprise allowance alone . |
| 8 | And that means they arrive at a slower rate ! ’ |
| 9 | They would therefore be bunched up and arrive at a faster rate . |
| 10 | Most chemical reactions which proceed at a measurable rate are believed to take place in a series of simple steps . |
| 11 | Thus , when the UK figure rises the Scottish figure will also rise but at a higher rate and likewise decrease at a faster rate when the UK figure falls . |
| 12 | You borrow at a fixed rate of interest and repay the loan over a number of years . |
| 13 | When the Netherlands is the seat of war , all the peasants grow rich , for they pay no rent when the enemy is in the country , and provisions sell at a high rate . ’ |
| 14 | Other genes change at a higher rate , presumably because natural selection is more tolerant of variations in them . |
| 15 | The eggs hatch and the tadpoles develop at a spectacular rate . |
| 16 | The strategy could not make , nor sustain if it could , the ceteris paribus conditions such as the idea of a perfect vacuum in which objects fall at a constant rate of acceleration whatever their size and shape . |
| 17 | Sooner or later , however , they will pervade the blood-stream and increase at a striking rate , paralysing the skull with tumorous growths ( 66/68 ) . |
| 18 | But broadcasting costs are more volatile than other costs and also rise at a faster rate so that even a licence fee increase which keeps up with general costs is an actual real decrease in its total value . |
| 19 | We 'll make the poor Weavers work at a low rate ; We 'll find fault where there 's no fault , and so we will bate ; If trading goes dead , we will presently show it ; But if it grows bad , they shall never know it ; We 'll tell them that cloth beyond sea will not go , We care not whether we keep clothing or no . |
| 20 | The mines were going off too early , but aniseed balls placed between contacts proved effective , for aniseed balls dissolve at a constant rate no matter what the temperature . |