Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] rate over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given the close relationship between three month interbank rates and base rates , this provides a good guide to the money market 's expectation of the path of base rates over the next twelve months . |
| 2 | A comparison of birth rates over the last 20 years also shows a there are fewer regional variations . |
| 3 | The narrowing of differences is revealed most obviously in a comparison of unemployment rates over the last decade . |
| 4 | The demand for money is also influenced by expectations of price changes and the levels of interest rates over the longer term . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A further problem with this aspect of the analysis is the changes in exchange rates over the period of the study . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The steep fall in interest rates over the past two years has boosted their operating profits enormously . |