Example sentences of "[been] [verb] at [art] rate " in BNC.
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1 | The number of workers on the land has been shrinking at the rate of nearly 20000 per year , although this has not occurred in a completely uniform fashion . |
2 | By the weekend , around 50 flights will have been made at the rate of one every 2 hours and the deployment will be complete . |
3 | iXOS , founded in 1988 by Hans Strach Zimmerman , formerly with Siemens AG , and Eberhard Faerber , founder of Peripherie Computer Systeme GmbH , is a privately-held company that has been growing at a rate of 50% per year , and employs 110 staff . |
4 | iXOS , founded in 1988 by Hans Strach Zimmerman ( ex Siemens ) and Eberhard Faerber ( founder of PCS Computer Systems ) , is a privately-owned company that has been growing at a rate of 50% per year , employs 110 staff . |
5 | House prices in Greater London have been rising at a rate of around 15 to 18 per cent over the past couple of years . |
6 | The books have been stolen at the rate of twenty or thirty a day . |
7 | It clearly is not the case , that , we have heard from the city this morning , and in the city alone windfalls have been progressing at the rate of eighty per annum , if it was only half that rate over the next thirteen years we would see five hundred more houses , and that excludes windfalls from the rest of the Greater York area , excluding the city of York . |
8 | Converted to luminosity , this means that the sun 's brightness has been dimming at a rate of 0.05 per cent per year , a figure that is in good agreement with the satellite results . |
9 | To get the clean price we subtract the interest that has been accruing at the rate of d per cent up to that day . |
10 | Assume that the 100 machines have been acquired at the rate of ten per time period for the last ten periods , so that from now on depreciation is equal to ten machines per time period . |
11 | Consumers pay the price P ' ; and producers receive the price P ’ ; after tax has been paid at the rate E * ; F per unit . |
12 | Britain 's hedgerows have been vanishing at the rate of 1,800 miles a year . |