Example sentences of "the rates of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 At the other end of the eruption size-scale , time-series analysis of the rates of change of chemical signatures in lavas from continuously erupting volcanoes is now being used to reveal the storage times of magmas before eruption .
2 Therewas no significant correlation between the baseline values of bone mineral content/bone width or bone mineral density and the subsequent changes in bone mineral or between the rates of change of spinal and radial bone mineral density .
3 Equations ( 24.1 ) — ( 24.3 ) give the rates of change of X , Y , and Z in terms of their present values .
4 Secondly , regional and local populations do not by any means constitute faithful microcosms of the national population , either in terms of the rates of change in their size or in terms of their composition by age , sex , household type and socio-economic characteristics ( Lawton , 1982 ) .
5 Foreign currency assets and liabilities are translated into sterling at the rates of exchange at the balance sheet date .
6 They provide the file designer with reference charts for buckets of size one and ten records , and can be used to predict the rates of deterioration of any access frequency loaded file using the given bucket sizes .
7 This would certainly occur if the rates of suicides among those who make attempts continue at the levels mentioned earlier ( p. 21 ) .
8 A number of studies have attempted to do this both by comparing the rates of progress of children whose caretakers employ different styles of ‘ Motherese ’ and by deliberately seeking to modify adult input .
9 This permits the direct comparison of the rates of return of any number of competing investments .
10 This permits the direct comparison of the rates of return of any number of competing investments .
11 Since the rates of return on bonds and equities represent the opportunity cost of holding money , we can expect an inverse relationship between the rates of return expected by wealth-holders and the demand for money .
12 There is evidence that the rates of return on hard-currency expenditure in this field are high .
13 In the first , which we cover in this section , we examine the relationship between spot and forward exchange rates , and in the second we examine the relationship between the rates of return on assets with differing terms .
14 The term structure of interest rates is the relationship between the rates of return on bonds with different maturity dates .
15 Since the rates of return on bonds and equities represent the opportunity cost of holding money , we can expect an inverse relationship between these expected rates of return and the demand for money .
16 General practitioners spend a good proportion of their time with elderly patients and this is acknowledged in the rates of payment for different categories of patients on the GP lists .
17 The rates of payment for previous years were obtained from old amendments to the statements of fees and allowances .
18 In Brazil the rates of participation in the workforce of women with university education are 66 per cent for married and 77 per cent for single women ( Filet- Arbreu Souza 1980 ) .
19 Groups received questionnaire screening to see if there are any differences in the rates of dyspepsia between the two with a view to screening the high risk group of miners for gastric cancer .
20 The information about local conditions is essential if questions such as ‘ if x inches of rain falls in y hours on a given drainage-basin , how will channel flow respond ? ’ for the rates of operation of the different processes will depend on these local conditions .
21 The rates of diffusion of two gases may be compared by measuring the time taken for a given volume of each gas to diffuse through a porous surface under identical conditions .
22 The ratio of the rates of diffusion of two gases a and b diffusing under identical conditions is given by From equation ( 6 ) we see that , under the same conditions of temperature and pressure , density is proportional to molar mass .
23 Right , so given sort of erm , public and semi-public institutions , right , represent a large proportion of the non- agricultural erm , employment opportunities , and as a result , alright , the rates of pay in the , in the civil service , essentially , are going to , going to determine erm , the urban , the urban wage rate .
24 Another criticism of this study is that the authors only differentiated very generally between first and second generation Asian and Afro-Caribbeans without discussing the implications of mixing them together in the study , potentially masking important differences in the rates of schizophrenia between the two , and leaving an unclear picture as to whether second generation Asians , who were in the minority , benefited in the same way from the postulated protective factors .
25 It is now clear that this is no longer an adequate explanation and that the rates of schizophrenia in British black young people are worryingly high .
26 They speed up the rates of interconversions of compounds that would otherwise proceed too slowly to be useful .
27 Prices and incomes policies have been justified historically on the grounds that , if successful , they serve directly to scale down the rates of increase of money wages and absolute prices while minimizing the rise in unemployment which a policy of demand restriction would entail .
28 The rates of increase in productivity were particularly impressive at that time .
29 He must know the origins , courses , and confluences of all rivers , streams , and ditches , the rates of flow in dry and wet weather , and the uses made of the water .
30 This behaviour suggests that the rates of approach to and from equilibrium are determined by the actual non-equilibrium state of the material .
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