Example sentences of "[noun] rate [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Iterated 's system is claimed to produce data rates as low as 40Kbps for high quality video playback , which compares very favourably with the likes of the Motion Picture Experts Group algorithm . |
| 2 | The Bank of Spain has been selling options that grant the right to sell the peseta at exchange rates as low as 80 to the D-mark , well below the currency 's ERM floor . |
| 3 | The surplus was despite the sharp appreciation of the austral in the second half of the year making the exchange rate less favourable and causing heavy financial losses for exporters [ see p. 37959 for January 1991 sharp depreciation of austral ] ; in addition US and European Community ( EC ) farm subsidies had depressed world farm prices . |
| 4 | Temperature is another significant factor ; this is expressed in the Arrhenius equation which indicates that reaction rates approximately double for each 10° C rise in temperature . |
| 5 | The table below shows the lenders offering the 10 lowest standard mortgage rates currently available before any discounts are taken into account . |
| 6 | We are trying to keep up with the Germans , whose central bankers call their four and a half per cent inflation rate monstrously high , and would barely tolerate a return to two per cent . |
| 7 | But Bregawn was the winner , and the £45,260 he earned that afternoon made a major contribution to the £358,837 prize money which saw Michael Dickinson champion trainer again that season , with 120 winners in all — a record total — from 259 runners , a strike rate just short of one in two . |
| 8 | In the first year you should keep your livestock rate very low ; this greatly reduces the chance of disease and ensures adequate winter fodder . |
| 9 | The response rate to a verbal questionnaire can easily be 90% or more but a mailed questionnaire can have a response rate as low as 30% even with follow-up reminders . |
| 10 | They say building societies and banks have been keeping their home loan rates too high for too long . |
| 11 | With loan rates virtually certain to move up over the next month to around 14.75 per cent , a line of credit fixed at 12.95 per cent suddenly seems rather attractive . |
| 12 | Perhaps because of our seafaring and imperial history , British people rate very high in this international league table , second only after the Dutch , who possibly derive their skills and abilities from the same type of background . |
| 13 | And if we do get a period of rapid inflation , because if one looks back at seventy four seventy five , with inflation running at over twenty percent a year , stock market out of control , erm and er and er building society rates very poor , erm you know seventy four begins to look a bit like ninety four to me . |
| 14 | The inference is clear to keep the application rate very low — no more than ½ ounce ( 14g ) in 2 gallons ( 9 litres ) of water per 2 square yards ( 2 square metres ) , and applications at least 3 weeks apart . |
| 15 | In 1981 , turnover of software houses from software development activities was more than five times that of 1975 , with annual growth rates as high as 60 per cent . |
| 16 | No organisation with a growth rate as rapid as that of the Trust over the past decade can afford to ignore the risks associated with size . |
| 17 | This report describes the referral patterns of women during pregnancy and the effect this has on the interpretation of perinatal risk ; compares crude perinatal mortality rates between different maternity units ; shows how adjustment for case mix influences the initial rates ; and suggests ways of making analyses of perinatal mortality rates more relevant for evaluating obstetric and neonatal care . |
| 18 | Linley Park , South Aberdeen , attacked compulsory competitive tendering which she said had produced wage rates as low as £1 an hour for cleaners in Kincardine & Deeside . |
| 19 | Leaving aside discussion of case loads and the closure of cases ( to be covered below ) the development officers found this referral rate entirely manageable except towards the end of the referral year when case loads were at their peak and referrals were also high ; for example , the development officer in Newham remarked in January l985 ‘ I feel a bit shell-shocked this month with ail the new referrals together with all my problem cases ’ . |
| 20 | Generally speaking , instability thresholds are lower than in the quasi-Lorenz system , and the restrictions on decay rates less severe . |
| 21 | Having said that , some people have normal pulse rates up to 100 and some athletes and other normal people have pulse rates as low as 40 . |
| 22 | But with the wearing of seatbelts now a legal requirement in many European countries and with adherence rates generally high ( much higher than in the US ) , the airbag is poised to make a significant contribution to lessening the head and chest injuries that even restrained drivers can suffer through impact with the steering wheel . |
| 23 | 2.9 " Interest " means interest during the period from the date on which the payment is due to the date of payment both before and after any judgment at the Interest Rate then prevailing or should the base rate referred to in clause 1.8 cease to exist such other rate of interest as is most closely comparable with the Interest Rate to be agreed between the parties or in default of agreement to be determined by the Accountant acting as an expert and not as an arbitrator |
| 24 | The costs of factoring are usually around 0.5 to 3 per cent of your turnover plus an interest rate roughly equivalent to your bank overdraft rate , so unless you have reasonably high profit margins costs can be a problem . |
| 25 | There is also evidence to show that by keeping interest rates artificially low in boom years , the state forced banks to allocate credit by rationing quantities and this favoured large borrowers . |
| 26 | INTEREST rates obediently rose accross Europe yesterday after the Bundesbank , the West German central bank , increased its lending rates by one percentage point and its counterparts participated in a co-ordinated attempt to suppress the dollar and maintain exchange rate parities within the European Monetary System . |
| 27 | Page 29 Market uneasy : Fears of a rise in West German interest rates today depressed share prices . |
| 28 | Add this to the state of the economy — production down , unemployment up and interest rates still high — and it is hardly surprising that he is deeply unpopular . |
| 29 | AT&T Co said yesterday that it plans to call five long-term debt issues totalling $1,750m for early redemption and expects to use cash reserves and new debt to fund the exercise — with interest rates so low in the US , new debt is cheaper than most old debt ; one-time costs associated with the redemptions are expected to reduce first quarter 1993 earnings by about $0.04 per share but interest savings in subsequent quarters will reduce the full-year impact to less than $0.02 per share . |
| 30 | First Nigel Lawson kept interest rates too low for too long , letting the boom boil over as he shadowed the D-Mark . |