Example sentences of "are [verb] at [art] 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 | Like the stately swan gliding serenely over the water , few suspect that under the surface the legs and feet are going at a rate of knots , with the result that the following items are in the pipeline , if not already attended to : — |
5 | Games are played at a rate of 40 moves each in two hours thinking time followed by 20 moves in subsequent hours . |
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 | The NICs discussed above are introduced at a rate n 2 and gross employee remuneration Y r is given by |
8 | The birds are stocked at a rate of 5,000 per hectare in a fenced off pasture to protect them from foxes and other predators . |
9 | Ethnic Germans and asylum-seekers are entering at a rate of 1,600 per day . |
10 | Calls are charged at a rate of 34p per minute at cheap times and 45p at all other times . |
11 | Calls are charged at a rate of 33p per minute at cheap times and 44p at all other times . |
12 | Over £40,000 , all deals are charged at the rate of 0.25% ; maximum commission is £250 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | Thus , to give one case example in ten thousand that spring to mind , no psychiatrist in his right mind would pay credence or even attention to the findings , as uncovered by Hans Eysenck some years ago , that patients undergoing psychoanalysis have an improvement rate of 44 per cent , those subject to the effects of other psychotherapy recover at the rate of 64 per cent , and those to whom nothing whatever is done , who receive no treatment at all , are cured at a rate of 72 per cent . |
15 | According to Tektronix UK Ltd , Marlow , Buckinghamshire , commercially available X-Windows applications are increasing at a rate of 40% a year : under the company 's validation programme , over 60 new applications have been approved after testing on Tektronix TekXpress X terminals . |
16 | They contribute 14 per cent of the greenhouse effect and are increasing at the rate of 6 per cent a year . |
17 | And yet these species are vanishing at the rate of one every half hour , before we can even identify and research them . |
18 | SMALL BUSINESSES are collapsing at the rate of one every 10 minutes . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | New figures out today from the British Chambers of Commerce show that businesses are collapsing at the rate of 76 a day . |
23 | Utah 's renowned salt flats are disappearing at the rate of 1 per cent a year , and may disappear completely within decades . |
24 | 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 . |