Example sentences of "be [verb] at 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | We saw awful conditions in Bouzoulouk , where , out of a population of 35,000 they are dying at the rate of 100 a day . |
| 4 | The benefits paid from the fund are taxed at the rate appropriate to the pensioner 's circumstances . |
| 5 | By the weekend , around 50 flights will have been made at the rate of one every 2 hours and the deployment will be complete . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The books have been stolen at the rate of twenty or thirty a day . |
| 9 | Earlier this month , people were reported to be dying at the rate of 30 a day from hunger and the effects of Serb shelling . |
| 10 | At one point earlier this month townspeople were reported to be dying at the rate of 30 a day from shellfire and starvation . |
| 11 | Right , let's move on to the last session , where we 're going to be looking at the rate books . |
| 12 | The tax would be levied at the rate of the equivalent of US$3 per barrel of oil in 1993 , rising by $1 a year to a maximum of $10 per barrel in 2000 — the EC target date for the stabilization of carbon dioxide emissions at 1990 levels . |
| 13 | The tax will be levied at the rate of $3 per barrel of oil equivalent in 1993 , rising by $1 a year to a maximum of $10 per barrel in 2000 — the EC target date for the stabilization of carbon dioxide emissions at 1990 levels . |
| 14 | The tax will be levied at the rate of 25.7 cents per million British thermal units ( BTUs ) on heating fuels and at 59.9 cents per million BTUs for transport oil . |
| 15 | Mr Lamont forecasts that the economy will be growing at the rate of three per cent per year in 12 months ' time ; he would have carried more conviction , if he had not made the same ‘ jam tomorrow ’ forecast a year ago . |
| 16 | In the event that the Director is required to provide his services in excess of five days after 22 December 1989 , then it is agreed that he shall be reimbursed at the rate of £200 per diem . |
| 17 | Interest will be charged at the rate of 1 per cent above the Bank base rate prevailing for the relevant period . |
| 18 | Class 321 units continued to be delivered at the rate of two a week , and on the Isle of Wight ‘ new ’ 1938-built former London Underground trains began to be introduced to replace coaches dating from 1923 . |
| 19 | The Flower Fairies Year will be issued at the rate of one plate every other month . |
| 20 | Relief on the rest will be taken at the rate of 5% a year . |
| 21 | Bonemeal is a good base which lasts several years , and can be spread at the rate of about 180–240 g per sq m ( 6–8 oz per sq yd ) , and garden compost into which wood ashes have been mixed is particularly helpful on such soils . |
| 22 | It has now prepared a short-list of five projects for the next round of decisions to be made in a year or two , although the agency warns that these more ambitious and expensive projects can only be funded at the rate of one every 2½ years . |
| 23 | We will order the fines and costs to be paid at the rate of twenty pounds a week . |
| 24 | A blacksmith whose work involved much sharpening of jumpers ( drill irons ) , could be paid at the rate of , say , so much per 20 dozen — otherwise at so much per day . |
| 25 | By the ship 's articles , executed before the commencement of the voyage , the plaintiff was to be paid at the rate of £5 a month ; and the principal question in the cause was , whether he was entitled to a higher rate of wages . |
| 26 | Grants will be paid at the rate of 30 per cent of eligible costs for vessels above 12 metres and up to 33 metres , and at ten per cent for larger vessels . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Over £40,000 , all deals are charged at the rate of 0.25% ; maximum commission is £250 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | They contribute 14 per cent of the greenhouse effect and are increasing at the rate of 6 per cent a year . |