Example sentences of "[adj] rate [prep] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even this rate of increase in the official price indices hardly records the real impact as large quantities of food were only available on the black market . |
| 2 | The high growth of the real money stock after 1979 compared with the growth of real GDP is partly reflected in the high rate of inflation during the 1980s — an annual average of 9.3 per cent , compared with 2 per cent growth of real GDP . |
| 3 | The high rate of inflation in the 1970s was threatening the building of a new Junior School , and a Sports Pavilion at the Dialstone Lane field . |
| 4 | Despite the complex set of influences , we would emphasize the high rate of accumulation as the most fundamental factor behind the decline in profitability . |
| 5 | In the UK special emphasis was laid on the role of the Royal Air Force in the earliest phase of the air war , and the loss of six RAF Tornado aircraft represented a relatively high rate of casualties among the allied forces at this stage . |
| 6 | The compulsory retirement of active , healthy elderly people who were willing to continue working was seen as a contributory factor to the high rate of suicide among the aged ( WHO 1959 ; Logan 1953 ) which peaked at age 70 ; deferred retirement was advocated as a preventive measure ( Batchelor and Napier 1953 ) . |
| 7 | A few of the jeeps had run out of ammunition before the raid had finished , which was hardly surprising considering the high rate of fire of the Vickers K guns . |
| 8 | Movement from the land faster than in any other country helps to explain the United Kingdom 's high rate of emigration in the last two decades of the nineteenth century . |
| 9 | The Association has been given to understand that successive Chancellors have set different rates of tax for the different categories of alcoholic drink in order to preserve flexibility to respond to changing market circumstances . |
| 10 | the standard deviation of the daily rate of change in the closing prices for the most recent 20 days ( Martell and Wolf , 1987 ) ; |
| 11 | The daily rate of hewers on the north Staffordshire coalfield advanced from 1s 5d a day to 2s 6d ( 7p to 12½p ) between 1774 – 5 and 1789 – 92 , a 75 per cent increase in money wages bringing a real improvement of 60 per cent . |
| 12 | It was claimed that the plaintiff should be compensated for care of her parents to the full commercial rate in accordance with the principles expressed in Abbel . |
| 13 | In Scotland Woodley et al ( 1992 ) have shown that students entering with lower Highers scores are more likely to fail examinations and drop-out for that reason , while Johnes and Taylor ( 1989 ) have shown that non-completion rates in universities throughout the UK are related to the mean A-level score of students on entry . |
| 14 | When a nationalized industry is committed to pricing in this way , it should use these prices to calculate the stream of social profit and the social rate of return on the investment project . |
| 15 | The net investment in a finance lease should be recorded as a debtor in the pension scheme 's accounts with the gross earnings normally allocated to accounting periods to give a constant periodic rate of return on the net cash investment . |
| 16 | Such increases can be achieved without additional visits in the routine immunisation schedule , and would also provide an added incentive for programme managers to ensure high rates of compliance at the 6 or 9 month visit for measles vaccination . |
| 17 | In 1982 the programme area was extended to cover an adjoining neighbourhood , California Kirkbride , which registered similarly high rates of deprivation to the original six neighbourhoods ( Allegheny West , Central North Side , East Allegheny , Fineview , Manchester and Perry South ) . |
| 18 | In view of the high rates of unemployment in the Highlands and Islands and especially the Western Isles , these programmes have been taken particularly seriously there . |
| 19 | Today , a formal lowering of the male retirement age to 60 has been rejected on grounds of cost , but high rates of unemployment among the 60–64 age-group , together with official encouragement for unemployed men to leave the labour force , amounts to an informal de facto policy of increasing early retirement for men . |
| 20 | That is not the same as what it actually costs them to run their practice , but what the taxing office or county court perceives as the overall rate for solicitors in the area . |
| 21 | True , material living standards have risen but this has only been granted either to increase the overall rate of exploitation of the workers or because the workers of the Third World are being exploited even more rapaciously to ‘ buy off ’ subordinate classes at home . |
| 22 | While it is true that without the transport sector 's contribution , the overall rate of investment in the economy would not have exceeded 10 per cent of national income by 1815 , concentration on such macro-economic data tends to obscure the fact that the financing of improvements in transport was above all an example of regional capital formation . |
| 23 | The EC proposes to tax imports from outside the EC by applying the reduced rate of tax to the full price , or , in the case of those countries like the UK and Denmark which do not have a reduced rate , the standard rate to 30% of the price . |
| 24 | When my right hon. Friend visits the county palatine , will he hold a meeting with tenants and perhaps point out to them that a standard rate of 35p in the pound , which was described as preposterous by the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) , was the rate levied by the last Labour Government ? |
| 25 | By way of illustration the following table shows what £1,000 will be worth in today 's money at the end of the periods shown if the annual rate of inflation over the period is as shown : |
| 26 | By way of illustration the following table shows what £1,000 will be worth in today 's money at the end of the periods shown , if the annual rate of inflation over the period is as shown . |
| 27 | By way of illustration the following table shows what £1,000 will be worth in today 's money at the end of the periods shown , if the annual rate of inflation over the period is as shown . |
| 28 | Real public spending since 1979 will have shown an average growth rate of 1.4% per annum compared with an annual rate of 1% under the previous Labour administration . |
| 29 | Non-farm productivity rose by an annual rate of 1% in the first quarter of this year , barely offsetting a fall in the fourth quarter of 1990 . |
| 30 | In this book , we use the percentage annual rate of change of the Retail Price Index as our measure of the inflation rate . |