Example sentences of "rate [prep] [num] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 11 a.m. the bombardment intensified to the point where Campana could count the shells raining down on two neighbouring companies at a rate of five a minute . |
| 2 | Vantages and Virages now roll off the assembly at the dizzying rate of five a week , and are bought by very rich men ( cost : £120,000 ) with a taste for abiding values in a changing world . |
| 3 | Foreigners suffering poverty , but not political persecution , have been flocking to Germany at a rate of 400,000–500,000 a year . |
| 4 | Early in 1991 odour violation notices from the emissions regulatory authority were arriving at the plant at a rate of four a month — and to trigger a notice there has to be at least five complaints from neighbours . |
| 5 | New figures out today from the British Chambers of Commerce show that businesses are collapsing at the rate of 76 a day . |
| 6 | WOMEN are now becoming infected with the HIV virus at the worldwide rate of two a minute as the AIDS epidemic gathers pace , an international expert claimed today . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Koirala told parliament on March 9 that more than 20,000 Bhutanese refugees had arrived in Nepal since July 1991 and more were arriving at the rate of 200 a day . |
| 9 | Council housing stocks dwindling at the rate of 200 a year ( Tory policy of course ) . |
| 10 | Retail giant Sears , known for what the company itself has described as an ‘ aggressive ’ stance on EDI , has been encouraging its suppliers to adopt EDI at a rate of 200 a month . |
| 11 | By the end of the month the French , United Kingdom and United States governments had committed troops to maintain " safe havens " within Iraq , despite the latter 's condemnation , and UN relief agencies confirmed on April 29 that Kurdish refugees who had fled Iraq were returning home at the rate of 20,000 a day . |
| 12 | They have the worst mortality record of all social groups — an age specific death rate of 68.8/100000 a year , 42% worse than in social class V ( 48.4/100000 ) and worse than that of social class I ( 22.8 ) by a factor of 3 . |
| 13 | Prescribing will be carried out by specially trained and experienced nurses , yet trained nurses are leaving the NHS at the rate of 80,000 a year — a quarter of all nurses . |
| 14 | Her abdomen is swollen into a white heaving sausage , I 2 centimetres long , from which she produces eggs at the almost unbelievable rate of 30,000 a day . |
| 15 | The UNHCR was already operating eight camps in Kenya but said that more were needed as refugees were arriving in Kenya at the rate of 2,800 a day . |
| 16 | Throughout the 1920s , small banks had been failing in America at a rate of hundreds a year : in 1926 , for example , 976 banks out of 28,350 collapsed . |
| 17 | Honda 's version of the 200 — to be known as the Concerto — will be built under contract at Longbridge in Birmingham by Rover at an initial rate of 40,000 a year . |
| 18 | We saw awful conditions in Bouzoulouk , where , out of a population of 35,000 they are dying at the rate of 100 a day . |
| 19 | On Aug. 2 the UOF published in Paris an appeal to non-governmental organizations to send aid to some 200,000 civilians in the north and south-west of Djibouti , who it claimed were dying at the rate of 100 a day due to the effects of drought and a government blockade of areas of rebel activity . |
| 20 | During 1938 and 1939 slum-dwellers were being rehoused at the rate of 1,000 a day . |
| 21 | The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) announced on Feb. 21 that it was allocating $1,000,000 in emergency funds for the refugees , which it estimated now totalled at least 100,000 and were crossing the border at the rate of 1,000 a day . |
| 22 | Unemployment is up from 1.7 million to 2.7 million ; home repossessions are running at 75,000 a year ; companies are going bankrupt at the rate of 1,000 a week . |
| 23 | The UN protection force , Unprofor , and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees had called for an air corridor after reports that refugees in Srebrenica were dying at a rate of 20 a day from exposure and starvation . |
| 24 | Working from early morning to late in the evening , construction crews from the Grahams/ Farrans joint venture team are slotting together 90 tonnes concrete sections at the rate of three a day . |
| 25 | Between 1870–71 , the Ironworks produced 36 spans at the rate of three a month each of 107ft to make a total length of 3,852ft for the Kistna Viaduct . |
| 26 | On Jan. 31 the office of UN High Commissioner for Refugees reported that Somali refugees were arriving in Kenya at the rate of 700 a day bringing the total there already to 140,000 . |
| 27 | Earlier this month , people were reported to be dying at the rate of 30 a day from hunger and the effects of Serb shelling . |
| 28 | At one point earlier this month townspeople were reported to be dying at the rate of 30 a day from shellfire and starvation . |
| 29 | To that end , Microsoft has trained 2,000 independent technical-support engineers and software-implementation consultants , and is adding to their number at the rate of 250 a week . |
| 30 | Bankruptcies are running at a record rate of 800,000 a year . |