Example sentences of "rate of increase [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rate of increase during the past three weeks is comparable with that seen in 1975 , when infection levels rose to an average weekly rate of 350 per 100,000 population . |
| 2 | In the following year , as already noted , the cost of living rose by 120 per cent ( average for the year ) , and by the end of the year the rate of increase for the previous twelve months had reached 170 per cent . |
| 3 | A logistic curve is one in which the rate of increase of a population is a function of the size of the initial population . |
| 4 | The politician is the organ of society for having its cake and eating it , for escaping , if only for a moment , if only through a form of art — art is , after all , a means of escape — from the grimness of reality , from this grim fact that you ca n't have the cake and eat it , that you ca n't have public expenditure increased in excess of the rate of increase of the national product , unless private claims are correspondingly surrendered . |
| 5 | Therefore , if the Government can finance its expenditure without taxation by some other method , namely through inflation , by creating the additional spending power and infusing it into the economy , that is an ideal solution to an insoluble problem — how to increase public expenditure faster than the rate of increase of the national income without the rest of the community having to surrender any claims or expectations . |
| 6 | Let us suppose that a Government , a party , observing that the rate of increase of the national income has been as high as 3 per cent in real terms over the last few years , were to decide to make plans which involve the growth of public expenditure at the rate of 2and1/2 ; per cent , so as to be a little within the recent happy experience . |
| 7 | But these excuses for over-running the planned rate of increase of the money supply do not touch the central problem , which is the planned rate of increase itself . |
| 8 | They continued to rise in the next three years , and in 1984–5. they were nearly equal to the current rate of increase of the cost of living . |
| 9 | The first , and most important , is that the natural rate of increase of the Albanian population is about 2.5 per cent per annum , while the corresponding rate among Serbs and Montenegrins is probably below 0.5 per cent . |
| 10 | But in the developing world the rate of increase in food production has been exceeded by the rate of increase of the population , and now there is not enough food being produced in the developing world for the local population . |
| 11 | You can also study the rate of increase of the beetles , as described for aphids in Chapter 4 . |
| 12 | In the third and fourth quarters of 1978 the annualised rate of increase of the Retail Prices Index was only 6.8 per cent and real incomes were rising again following the sharp falls of 1976 and 77 ; unemployment , while still very high by post-war standards , was beginning to fall from its peak in 1977 and job vacancies were on the increase ; the balance of payments current account showed a substantial surplus . |
| 13 | The slow-down in the rate of increase between the third and fourth time bands reflects the saturation of the new ‘ market ’ as the industry reached maturity , and started to take on fewer new staff . |
| 14 | Annual rate of increase in the 1980s : 0.25 per cent . |
| 15 | Mr Tony Blair , Labour 's employment spokesman , said the rate of increase in the jobless total appeared to have slowed , but he said more were out of work than in virtually every other European Community country . |
| 16 | Today the rate of increase in food production has exceeded the rate of increase in the total world population . |
| 17 | A straight-line fit to the nitric acid data of Fig. 2 present between day 55 ( when N 2 O 5 formation starts ) and the end of the season shows a rate of increase in the column amount that is very close to the model calculations above . |
| 18 | Even this rate of increase in the official price indices hardly records the real impact as large quantities of food were only available on the black market . |
| 19 | This strategy has at different points in time involved the abolition of certain benefits , a reduction in the numbers eligible to those that remain , the curtailment of the rate of increase in the value of benefits and real cuts in their financial worth . |
| 20 | The current rate of increase in the number of books , periodicals and learned journals being published is exponential and it is very difficult for a student to keep abreast of developments in a particular field . |
| 21 | As I said , whether mental confusion equals dementia , what exact degree of dependency what degree of confusion , what degree of dementia , this does n't tell you but what it does do is help to give us a picture of what is happening , not just in the local authority sector which we 've heard from , not just in the voluntary sector , which we 've heard from , but , if this is to be believed , by an even greater rate of increase in the private sector . |
| 22 | Similarly , the finding that class size affects performance , and ancillary evidence on the rate of increase in the frequency of large classes , has directly led to the provision of additional purpose-built accommodation for large classes . |
| 23 | I sought to score points earlier on the cavalier way in which previous Ministers dismissed the suggestions from the then Select Committee , by which we sought to limit the rate of increase in the residential care part of the Government 's budget . |
| 24 | We want the Government to think carefully and respond positively to our recommendations , because we are anxious that the rate of increase in the Budget from now on should not be jacked up by the powerful lobby of the industry and the influence that it can exert on the Government . |
| 25 | That is what our recommendations are about , but we also aim to help the Government to limit the rate of increase in the budget . |
| 26 | Measurement of the rate of increase in the linear part of the curve will permit calculation of the fractional turnover rate of the zymogen pool from the equation : where , D S A protein is the rate of increase of specific activity of bound leucine in protein and S A plasma max is the plateau specific activity of plasma leucine during the four hour infusion . |
| 27 | There only existed a trade off between the unemployment rate and the rate of increase in the rate of inflation . |