Example sentences of "[v-ing] the [noun sg] rate " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are , however , some disadvantages of allowing the exchange rate to depreciate to offset domestic inflation . |
| 2 | On the contrary , their exporting sectors , extremely powerful in both countries , had a very strong interest in maintaining the exchange rate at a low level in order to generate the maximum possible export surplus . |
| 3 | What is needed for all application techniques is an accurate , low-cost method of setting and maintaining the spread rate . |
| 4 | The alternative way of pricing the TB is to substitute this yield into the present value formula ( 4.7 ) to give exactly the same issue price ( 97.51 ) as that using the discount rate formula ( 4.9 ) . |
| 5 | Such comparisons are often difficult due to lack of available data , and comparisons are often made by measuring GNP per capita in local currency and using the exchange rate of the currency against an international standard ( typically US $ ) . |
| 6 | If only a portion of the balance is to be switched into another currency , the service will take two working days , using the exchange rate quoted at the requested time of transfer . |
| 7 | So , for example , a five-year lease is discounted using the interest rate for a five-year loan . |
| 8 | The French smoothed Britain 's way to accepting the Exchange Rate Mechanism by announcing the dropping of exchange controls . |
| 9 | The number of jobless in Britain rose in April for the 13th consecutive month , bringing the unemployment rate to 7.6% . |
| 10 | There are lots of references to bringing the crime rate down , economic miracles and all sorts of things like that . |
| 11 | But even if an immediate rise is avoided , the longer terrm effect is more insidious : a Labour Chancellor will find it hard to prevent the markets from widening the interest rate differential with Germany . |
| 12 | This will allow before and after studies of accidents to be made , this enabling the success rate of remedial actions developing out of the accident analysis to be measured . |
| 13 | In France there 's long been a high priority on keeping the birth rate up , so there are very high maternity grants and family allowances , especially if you 've got three or more children . |
| 14 | The Commission for the Special Areas unsuccessfully recommended the setting up of birth control clinics in areas of high unemployment , believing the birth rate to be undesirably high . |
| 15 | For there are fewer people working in agriculture and this is pushing the incidence rate back up . |
| 16 | To prevent this from depressing the exchange rate , £20bn of extra capital inflow has to be forthcoming . |
| 17 | Moreover , the absorption of the rational expectations hypothesis into the new classical economics led to a further , altogether more radical claim : the monetary and fiscal authorities would succeed in depressing the unemployment rate below U * ; only to the extent that they could inveigle agents into formulating erroneous expectations . |
| 18 | But erm , and you could always refer to it in your dialogue with them if you had a claim to make , er that they were only paying the district rate . |
| 19 | These include reducing smoking in 11–15 year olds by one third , reducing the proportion of energy derived from fats to 35% , reducing deaths from accidents by one third in under 15 year olds and by one quarter in those aged 15 to 24 , reducing suicides by 15% , and halving the conception rate in girls under 16 . |
| 20 | The system is already helping to meet the other tow goals ; it is balancing the response rate with the risk in order to predict profitability . |
| 21 | Three of these types depend on input from the organ of the same side , another responds to stimuli received by both sides , while a third type is unusual in simply measuring the repetition rate of the sound pattern . |
| 22 | In south east Zimbabwe , Landsat Thematic Mapper imagery and aerial photographs are being used in a study aimed at improving the success rate of boreholes and dug wells for rural water supply , with collaboration from hydrogeologists and engineering geophysicists . |
| 23 | Remote sensing , engineering geophysics and hydrogeological techniques are being used in a study in south-east Zimbabwe aimed at improving the success rate of boreholes and dug wells so as to improve the provision of a reliable supply of clean water to rural communities in developing countries , particularly in semiarid tropical regions where droughts are frequent . |
| 24 | Meanwhile international loan finance was secured , but the inflow of funds to London had the effect of holding the exchange rate at a level which , given the British inflation rate , made British enterprises increasingly uncompetitive and hence worsened the corporate liquidity position . |
| 25 | To take a specific example , the statement that a direct consequence of a publicly announced and widely believed monetary policy which aims at holding the unemployment rate at U 1 will be a higher expected rate of inflation does not imply the more extreme view that monetary policy can only reduce unemployment below U * ; to the extent that the authorities increase the money supply at a rate in excess of what was generally anticipated . |
| 26 | In the above example it is the Bank of England initiating the base rate change . |
| 27 | The first of Argentina 's and Brazil 's more recent batch of anti-inflation programmes , introduced in June 1985 and February 1986 , tried to break inflationary expectations by freezing prices , pegging the exchange rate to the dollar , and fixing wages . |
| 28 | Everything — growth , employment and prosperity — is to be subordinated and sacrificed to pegging the exchange rate of the pound . |
| 29 | The county 's director of education , Keith Mitchell said schools and colleges are also the victims of their own success , doubling the staying-on rate in five years . |
| 30 | Since productivity rose faster than mechanization , the output-capital ratio rose , boosting the profit rate still further . |