Example sentences of "in [noun sg] rate over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The October 1990 rate cut was anticipated for some time in advance by the gilt market which bought gilts and drove up gilt prices ( see Fig. 17.3 ) , as was the continued fall in base rates over the next two years . |
| 2 | In comparison the er the the smallest projection put forward by Mr Thomas , would actually result in a twenty one percent decrease in building rates over that approved in the adopted adopted plan , and a thirty two percent increase over the actual rate experienced since nineteen eighty one . |
| 3 | A further problem with this aspect of the analysis is the changes in exchange rates over the period of the study . |
| 4 | Furthermore , energy was over 30 per cent cheaper in the South than in the northeast in 1980 , according to Agnew ( 1987b , p. 174 ) , who draws on Bensel 's ( 1984 ) work , which combines the energy and unionization advantages of the South , to illustrate the growing gap in growth rates over the post-war decades between , on the one hand , the energy-rich/right-to-work States and , on the other , the energy-disadvantaged ( high cost , mostly imported ) and heavily-unionized . |
| 5 | The most spectacular change in mortality rates over the past 150 years has related to deaths within the first year of life — the infant mortality rate . |
| 6 | The main contributory factor here is the greater decline among older women than older men in mortality rates over the last forty years or so , with cancer and circulatory diseases now being the main causes of the higher mortality rate among men ( Ermisch , 1983 , 1990 ) . |
| 7 | While prices were forcast to fall by about 10 per cent on average next year , a slow decline in interest rates over the next 12 months was seen as prompting a resurgence the following spring . |
| 8 | The steep fall in interest rates over the past two years has boosted their operating profits enormously . |