Example sentences of "rate of [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are two important cut-off points ; at a rate of above 10 ventricular ectopic beats per hour the mortality increases steeply to above 20% and plateaus out at a rate of 30 per hour associated with a 1-year mortality of 30% . |
| 2 | The move was intended to bolster the strength of the deutschmark and to stem inflation ( running at an annualized rate of above 4 per cent , and in the Bundesbank 's view likely to become higher as a result of possible high wage settlements in the current round of pay talks and the government 's expansionary fiscal policy following unification ) . |
| 3 | Many calculated their wages not in the national currency , the dinar , but in deutschemarks at the rate of between 400 and 600 marks a month , three times the present average . |
| 4 | You are probably doing well with toddlers if you achieve a success rate of between 50 and 70 per cent . |
| 5 | World population is increasing at a rate of between 1.5 and 2.0 per cent per annum ( section 9.3.3 ) and most of the projected growth that will occur by the year 2000 will be in the developing world , mirroring a well-established trend . |
| 6 | In 1978 and 1980 two independent German studies reported that , in German firms surveyed , robots had replaced workers at the rate of between two and four men per robot per shift . |
| 7 | And that should give us food for thought ; while his uncle William in Frome , amongst others , was receiving poor relief at the rate of between 1s. and 4s. per fortnight , here , in the same year of 1799 , the nephew-made-good was handing over what amounted to about a year 's dole payments to join an exclusive club in the metropolis . |
| 8 | ‘ I expect a steady , more consistent growth rate of between 4% and 6% . ’ |
| 9 | I expect a steady , more consistent growth rate of between 4% and 6% |
| 10 | It now has wholly-owned offices in Paris , Amsterdam , Brussels , Frankfurt , Geneva , Stockholm and Gothenburg , is a shareholder in a well-established US firm and has associate arrangements in the USA and elsewhere , enabling it to sustain an annual growth rate of between 20% and 30% which is now generating annual total fees of up to £5m . |
| 11 | Diagnostic radiology is growing at a rate of between 5 and 15 per cent per year in many technically developed countries which , together with the rapid growth rate expected in developing countries , will lead to substantial increases in the global dose commitment in the future . |
| 12 | First gas is scheduled for 1994 with a planned plateau production rate of between 150 and 170 mmcfd . |
| 13 | Disadvantages : It 's an expensive option ( Judy 's client 's pay an annual membership fee of £35 or a one-off fee of £6 , plus an hourly rate of between £2.90–£3.75 per hour ) ; you 'll be leaving your children with a stranger . |
| 14 | The directive was part of a plan aimed at reducing the estimated unemployment rate of between 8 and 10 per cent by doubling the percentage of Bahrainis working in the private sector to 50 per cent by mid-1994 . |
| 15 | An annualized inflation rate of between 12 and 15 per cent was predicted and provision made for salary increases in line with this rate . |
| 16 | Growth was forecast at 3 per cent ( compared with 2 to 2.5 per cent forecast for 1992 ) ; inflation at an annualized rate of between 5 and 7 per cent ( compared with 9 per cent in 1992 ) ; and privatization receipts at Esc225,000 million . |
| 17 | During the period 80 to SOMaBP it drifted rapidly at a rate of between 100 and 180 mm a- 1 . |
| 18 | Taking into account the volume of erupted volcanic material lying both on and below the surface of the ocean floor , it can be estimated that a minimum construction rate of between 0.005 and 0.01 km 3 a- 1 is required for a volcanic island to be produced in 1 Ma on lithosphere between 20 and 40 Ma old . |
| 19 | For example , between 1971 and 1981 the eight principal cities of the UK were , on average , losing population at a rate of over 1 per cent per annum . |
| 20 | In 1979 , the World Bank published a glowing report , Romania : Industrialization under Socialist Planning , which claimed , on the basis of official Romanian government figures , that in the quarter century between 1950 and 1975 , the Romanian economy had grown at an average compound annual rate of over 9% . |
| 21 | Sow the seeds , which look like sweet peas , at the rate of about 1/2oz-sq yd . |
| 22 | Perhaps this was because of the dull routine nature of their job , servicing and re-fuelling incoming aircraft at the rate of about one flight every hour that day . |
| 23 | There is depopulation at a rate of about 1 –o each year . |
| 24 | The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere , rising today at a rate of about 1 part per million per year , and standing at around 335 ppm , plays an important role in determining the surface temperature of the Earth , because the gas traps infrared radiation . |
| 25 | Although Liz 's body is disposing of alcohol at the rate of about one unit a hour , her last drink pushed her over the legal limit for driving of 80mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood . |
| 26 | ( The Atlantic , though dominated by an enormous mid-ocean ridge where new sea-floor is being created at a modest rate of about an inch a year , is home to only two very small subduction zones , with volcanoes and trenches , in the Caribbean and the South Sandwich Islands , and therefore is not being destroyed at its edges as rapidly as it is being created in the middle ; the Indian Ocean is similarly undramatic — a mid-ocean ridge once again , but a single subduction zone where its eastern plate collides with the Eurasian Plate and produces the volcanoes that — like Krakatoa — line the southern side of the islands of Java , Sumatra and Timor . ) |
| 27 | Er so they actually got themselves organized and they erm have factories that , that er mass produce the components and they 're producing nuclear power stations at the rate of about one every six months . |
| 28 | At the time of writing , the Soviet republics are declaring independence at the rate of about one a day and it must be open to question whether the entries will come from the separate states rather than the USSR next time . |
| 29 | Good powder skiers turn at a rate of about one turn per second . |
| 30 | For what it is worth , every typist would have to have an error rate of about one in a trillion ; that is , he would have to be accurate enough to make only a single error in typing the Bible 250,000 times at a stretch . |