Example sentences of "rate of [noun] [art] " in BNC.

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1 With increasing rates of secretion an increasing fraction of the change in fluid transport caused by the nematode was mediated by nervous mechanisms .
2 I also hope that the hon. Member for Brecon and Radnor ( Mr. Livsey ) will reconsider his unyouthful radicalism in that context , because surely nobody can justify pay rates of 20p an hour .
3 Relief on the rest will be taken at the rate of 5% a year .
4 Work on the index began in July 1983 , and at the present rate of progress the initial data preparation phase should be finished by January 1988 .
5 It expects packaged Unix software sales to grow by a compound rate of 22% a year to 1997 in Europe .
6 It expects packaged Unix software sales to grow by a compound rate of 22% a year between now and 1997 in Europe .
7 DENNING J. stated the facts and continued : If I were to consider this matter without regard to recent developments in the law , there is no doubt that , had the plaintiffs claimed it , they would have been entitled to recover ground rent at the rate of £2,500 a year from the beginning of the term , since the lease under which it was payable was a lease under seal which , according to the old common law , could not be varied by an agreement by parol ( whether in writing or not ) , but only by deed .
8 He gave another instance of a farmer who obtained a loan of £100 on a promissory note of £140 to be repaid at a rate of £8 a month .
9 Similarly , other pensioner households , containing married couples , would be floated off supplementary benefit by an increase in the married couple 's rate of £8 a week .
10 In addition , an NHS general practitioner now prescribes at a rate of £100000 a year , and it is likely that referrals and use of other hospital services may amount to £200000 a year — these add up to £12m over 40 years .
11 Northampton Town , languishing since Chapman 's departure and losing money at the rate of £30 a week , were open to offers for Fanny Walden .
12 By the ship 's articles , executed before the commencement of the voyage , the plaintiff was to be paid at the rate of £5 a month ; and the principal question in the cause was , whether he was entitled to a higher rate of wages .
13 Therefore , without looking to the policy of this agreement , I think it is void for want of consideration , and that the plaintiff can only recover at the rate of £5 a month .
14 Local authorities would get a lower rate of grant the more they let spending rise above these levels .
15 With reports in wide circulation that she was amassing a multi-million fortune at the rate of £620,000 a month , Kylie was also able to indulge in her passion for shopping .
16 Between 1984 and 1991 , the volume of leasing in the UK grew from £3.9bn to £12.6bn , at an average rate of 18% a year .
17 It is a rate of growth no other public service could match .
18 High rate of growth The rate of growth is a measure of the increase in output over a period of time .
19 The difficulties of persuading a businessman to take on the running of such an ailing industry — it was losing at a rate of £2m. a day — and handle its relationship with the Government and the unions was exacerbated by the comparatively low salary on offer .
20 For the remaining weeks , you pay her at the lower rate of £44.50 a week .
21 Dataquest Corp says the end-user market in Japan for Unix-based relational databases will be worth $705.6m in 1996 , growing at a rate of 43% a year through that year .
22 Dataquest Corp says the end-user market in Japan for Unix-based relational databases will be worth $705.6m in 1996 , growing at a rate of 43% a year through that year .
23 The judge awarded Hoelzer $577,000 for his labours , based on Hoelzer 's calculations of a per diem rate of $1,600 a day .
24 But obviously the Government can not spend more when it is already ‘ overdrawing ’ at the rate of £50bn a year which anyone can work out is around £1,000 per head of population or say £2,000 per working person .
25 Another simulator , costing £25m , is languishing in storage at a rate of £95,000 a month , because of delays in preparing its new site .
26 For preference shares issued pre 6.4.73 at a fixed rate of dividend the new rate should be shown .
27 ‘ At a 40 p.c. marginal rate of tax the real yield over and above inflation is 3¼ p.c .
28 It 's bigger than British Telecom which , at its profitable peak , was coining it at the rate of £90 a second .
29 Another use of the DCF method is to establish the maximum rate of interest a company can afford to pay to borrow the capital needed for the investment .
30 Another use of the DCF method is to establish the maximum rate of interest a company can afford to pay to borrow the capital needed for the investment .
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