Example sentences of "than [art] [adj] [noun sg] rate " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , for the UK the tax structure achieves progressivity ( a marginal tax rate greater than the average tax rate ) by having tax allowances and a wide band of income over which the marginal tax rate is a constant . |
| 2 | The predicted response rate , based on a combination of pretreatment factors , was significantly lower ( 35% ) than the actual response rate ( 55% ) . |
| 3 | Similarly , at various times nationalized industries have been instructed to pursue social objectives or to help implement incomes policy by holding their price increases to less than the general inflation rate . |
| 4 | Ken Ellis , county trading standards officer for Devon , said : ‘ C & G was convicted on three charges of giving more prominence to a flat rate charge rather than the annual percentage rate , and three charges of not including an example in those advertisements . |
| 5 | The early mortality for elected admissions was point four percent and this was found to be significantly lower than the early mortality rate for emergency admissions which was two point four percent , some six times higher . |
| 6 | If the system is so ‘ sophisticated ’ that outside organisations are handling our magazine and problems like the one in Autumn occur why bother with that system ? why not go back to good old postage stamps ? … the reason is because we commenced distribution by Royal Mail 's ‘ Presstream ’ at the beginning of 1992 which involves the sender sorting all its UK mail into postcode order , the benefit being considerable savings from two discounts , firstly the Presstream pricing is lower than the standard postage rate and secondly an extra discount is earned because we have done the sorting instead of Royal Mail . |
| 7 | The landlord should beware should interest rates fall dramatically leaving the minimum rate at a level substantially higher than the standard borrowing rate , in which case the interest may be void as amounting to a penalty ; and the tenant would be advised not to run the risk of having to pay interest at a substantially higher rate than the basic lending rate . |
| 8 | This means that short-term interest rates on loans due to mature in a year tend to be generally lower than the long-term interest rate on loans of longer maturity . |
| 9 | Taken over 10 years , it was equivalent to an annual rise of 7.5 per cent — nearly four per cent higher than the current inflation rate . |
| 10 | The tax deductibility of interest expense reduces the cost of borrowing , and the after-tax discount rate is therefore less than the gross discount rate . |
| 11 | Thereafter , the rate is guaranteed to be at least 1.5% higher than the gross variable rate payable on the £5,000 Sovereign Shares Account . |
| 12 | The landlord should beware should interest rates fall dramatically leaving the minimum rate at a level substantially higher than the standard borrowing rate , in which case the interest may be void as amounting to a penalty ; and the tenant would be advised not to run the risk of having to pay interest at a substantially higher rate than the basic lending rate . |
| 13 | Changes in money supply from this source are likely to be much greater under a fixed than a floating exchange rate . |
| 14 | Nor is it sensible to argue , as the Treasury has , that a European system of central banks in charge of a single currency might prove more inflationary than a fixed exchange rate system where each monetary authority competed to provide a stable benchmark of value . |
| 15 | If the vendor shareholders are willing to accept this form of deferred consideration , with the debentures carrying less than an arm's-length interest rate , there is obviously a funding advantage to Newco . |