Example sentences of "[adv] the [noun sg] rate " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Major resisted the temptation to leave some excise duties unchanged in order to hold down the inflation rate . |
| 2 | The government and five leading banks agreed on March 18 to cut interest rates by an average of 3 percentage points in an effort to hold down the exchange rate for the sol which had strengthened against the US dollar from the beginning of 1992 . |
| 3 | Sometimes chemicals known as buffers are added to slow down the reaction rate thereby reducing corrosiveness . |
| 4 | A wider use of existing methods of contraception among non-users — and a reduction in the use of the IUD , which has a high failure rate — would pull down the abortion rate 46 per cent . |
| 5 | This means they slow down the volatility rate of the top and middle notes thus improving on the ‘ staying power ’ of the perfume . |
| 6 | So the profit rate rose faster than the share . |
| 7 | With managed floating there is a risk that speculators will suffer capital losses since the monetary authority is no longer attempting to defend a rigid par value , and so the exchange rate can move in either direction in response to market pressures . |
| 8 | So the interest rate should also be adjusted for inflation . |
| 9 | I would say to you that the history of North Yorkshire County is that the house house builders have built , more or less the building rate of planning policy , whatever that has been , and that is a matter of fact , and if and if and if we are in a situation where the market is being fettered , as is the policy , and it 's not a policy which we are seeking to go away from specifically , and it is inevitable that the house builders will build to whatever the policy building rate is , and comparisons of one building rate with another are simply telling you what 's happened in the past , not what needs to happen in the future er in terms of meeting the housing requirement , and quite clearly in any area where you are introducing a new settlement , if indeed that 's the conclusion we come to , er late later on , erm and I hope we do , but if we are introducing a new settlement you are bound to skew the building rates , and the more and more you reduce the area in which you consider what the building rate effect is the more and more that it actually gets skewed , er and erm you know , quite frankly , when the developers built a new estate at the end of my particular street the building rate went up alarmingly in my area , er and er you know , we can go on forever like that , I just think it 's very misleading to just deal with the judgement of building rates . |
| 10 | The flatter the present-value profile , the lower the duration and the less the interest rate risk . |
| 11 | This is just the sampling rate of a bat on a routine cruising flight . |
| 12 | And when the thousands of like minded people joined forces it was n't just the crime rate that seemed to improve . |
| 13 | In most experimental arrangements , it is the pressure difference , not the flow rate , that is held constant . |
| 14 | Formal control is therefore immediately effected by the sergeant and inspector , and their personality and leadership style can have a great influence on the morale ( if not the work rate ) of a section . |
| 15 | Thereafter the conviction rate steadily increased , reaching twenty-five per cent or more early in the twentieth century . |
| 16 | However once the unemployment rate has stabilized at a new , higher level , so too will the equilibrium rate of unemployment . |
| 17 | These objectives can be in quantitative terms eg. the growth rate of profits , or in qualitative terms eg. statements about public responsibility . |
| 18 | Last year it was increased by 20 per cent across the three engine capacity bands — double the inflation rate . |
| 19 | Yet still the Prussians delayed introducing expropriation to Pomerania until May 1912 lest they provoke an uprising , and while they bought up only four estates totalling over 6,624 hectares of land , they paid more than double the market rate . |
| 20 | As it grows , the assimilation per unit area of leaf is reduced by shading , but the absolute amount of light energy intercepted , and hence the growth rate , increases . |
| 21 | Bash , your readers need you — only you can up the slaughter rate . ’ |
| 22 | The Bank , by rejecting offers at r 1 , is in effect reducing its demand for bills ( D 1 to D 2 ) , and thereby drives up the rediscount rate to r 2 . |
| 23 | In his final chapter , he notes that the 1956 Royal Commission on Divorce identified what he feels ‘ may perhaps be the most important influence of all in driving up the divorce rate , namely the idealization of the individual pursuit of self-gratification and personal pleasure at the expense of a sense of reciprocal obligations and duties towards helpless dependents , such as children , and , our society as a whole ’ ( pp 403–4 ) . |
| 24 | Some economists calculate that only a small part ( perhaps a quarter ) of the appreciation of the exchange rate is attributable to oil but that the government deliberately pushed up the exchange rate ( which appreciated 40 per cent between 1979 and 1980 ) by raising domestic interest rates and thereby weakening industrial competitiveness . |
| 25 | The effect will be to drive up the exchange rate . |
| 26 | The problem with this is that it will drive up the exchange rate and thus make it harder for firms to export . |
| 27 | Inflows of money from abroad drive up the exchange rate . |
| 28 | Also high interest rates have the effect of driving up the exchange rate , which in turn can be damaging to exports . |
| 29 | The cattle thefts are five times more significant than the murder when offences are counted , but sixteen times as important when the number of offenders make up the crime rate . |
| 30 | ‘ If this property boom suddenly collapses , or if the government decides to jack up the bank rate to curb consumer spending , then you might find your loans withdrawn , in which case you 'd have a serious cash-flow problem on your hands . ’ |