Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] at [adj] rates " in BNC.
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| 1 | Curtains that have linings sewn in will require dry cleaning in order to reduce the risk of lining and curtain fabric shrinking at different rates . |
| 2 | Charges are £270 initial fee , £270 annual charge , and investment dealing at competitive rates . |
| 3 | Not surprisingly , it was this rule on which the Revenue rested its argument that the taxpayer should be taxed on the full amount of the benefit , even though it was aware that at the time the 1976 Finance Bill was being debated , the then Financial Secretary to the Treasury , Robert Sheldon , expressly stated that the benefit of a school place given at concessionary rates to the child of a teacher at that school would be ‘ assessed on the cost to the employer , which would be very small indeed in this case ’ . |
| 4 | Steps already taken in response to IMF recommendations included the regulation of banks ' capital-to-assets ratio ( January 1991 ) , the freeing of foreign exchange rates ( Feb. 27 ) , electricity and petrol price rises , and a sales tax levied at highest rates on luxury goods ( May 4 ) . |
| 5 | Poland , too , was hard hit by the Depression and , in spite of the developing trade war , Germany had taken advantage of the weak Polish mark to trade at advantageous rates and to become Poland 's main trading partner . |
| 6 | FIG. 1 Lymphocytes in each subset disappear at differing rates from the periphery . |
| 7 | In the second test zone , oil and gas flowed at daily rates of 1,750 barrels and 13.6 million cubic feet respectively . |
| 8 | If the devastation continues at current rates , much of the Amazon Rainforest will have been obliterated by the end of the century , now just ten years away . |
| 9 | Similarly , it was long obvious that time went at the same rate for every observer , but since Einstein , we have had to accept that time goes at different rates for different observers . |
| 10 | Fees will normally be based on time taken at premium rates to reflect the skills and responsibilities of the assignment or on some mix of fixed and contingency fee . |