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

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1 Although statistics show that many benefits paid to the old , poor and unemployed have maintained their real value ( ie kept pace with inflation ) under the Conservative government during the 1980s , these calculations are based on the rate of inflation for the average person .
2 Interest is added each year at the rate of inflation for the previous year in order to maintain the value of the loan in real terms .
3 Apart from a few lone voices ( see , for example , R. F. Kahn 's evidence to the Radcliffe Committee in 1958 ) , most economists tended to shunt the problem of inflation to the nether recesses of their minds , concentrating instead upon other , more pressing problems such as the difficulties of reconciling a high level of employment with balance of payments equilibrium .
4 The internal rates of inflation of the different states are far greater than we think , but there is no way of measuring that because of the existence of a single currency .
5 An unemployment rate well in excess of what had hitherto been considered to be a stable NAIRU was failing to produce sustained reductions in the rate of inflation beyond the initial impact effect of the fall in aggregate demand .
6 As an example , suppose the nominal interest rate is 15 per cent per annum and that the rate of inflation over the past year has been 10 per cent .
7 However , although this factor is important , it is unlikely to explain why default rates have risen so rapidly during 1990–91 compared with the early 1980s , given the much lower levels of inflation during the recent downturn .
8 He finds no real evidence of any government attempting to hold down the rate of inflation in the short run in order to promote its own popularity at election time .
9 The idea was that , if the government simply ‘ announced ’ that the rate of inflation in the coming year would be such and such , and reduced the rate of interest in line with that forecast , public expectations would adjust accordingly , and the rate of inflation would come down to that level .
10 The rate of inflation in the retail price index is 5 per cent per annum .
11 They are linked to the rate of inflation in the retail price index ( RPI ) .
12 Do you think your collection will increase in value by more than the rate of inflation in the foreseeable future ?
13 Calculating the rate of inflation from the Retail Price Index
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