Example sentences of "rate of [noun] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of studies have attempted to do this both by comparing the rates of progress of children whose caretakers employ different styles of ‘ Motherese ’ and by deliberately seeking to modify adult input . |
| 2 | In poplars , it has been found that there are increased concentrations and rates of synthesis of phenolics within 52 hours of attack . |
| 3 | They speed up the rates of interconversions of compounds that would otherwise proceed too slowly to be useful . |
| 4 | Changing the content of a problem from a stereotypically ‘ female ’ setting such as nutrition to a ‘ male ’ setting such as building can reverse the rank order of the success rates of groups of boys and girls . |
| 5 | This will be followed up by the second phase of interviews and observation work to explore further some main ideas more closely important factors in women 's health decision-making , especially those contributing to low rates of utilisation of services such as screening . |
| 6 | It recommended that the councils monitor the rates of submission of theses by research students in every university , so as to be able to impose sanctions on universities whose rates were unsatisfactory . |
| 7 | Graham studied the rates of effusion of gases and found that the relative rates of effusion of different gases under the same conditions are inversely proportional to the square roots of their densities . |
| 8 | The chronological extrapolation to Western Europe then required the postulation of models about the rate of diffusion of ideas . |
| 9 | With a faster rate of transfer of workers from old machines to new ones , the proportion of more modern , higher-productivity machines in use rises . |
| 10 | The general form of the model employs the rate of change of prices ( ΔP ) , the rate of change of wages ( ΔW ) , the level and/or rate of change of unemployment ( U or ΔU ) , together with the ( lagged ) level of union density ( D&subt-1 ; ) as determinants of the proportional rate of change of union membership ( ΔT ) , i.e. with the anticipated positive ( + ) and negative ( - ) influences shown in brackets . |
| 11 | The data do appear to confirm the view that there was a relationship between the level of unemployment and the rate of change of prices . |
| 12 | This is the familiar result that the rate of change of prices , i.e. the inflation rate , is the difference between the rate of growth of the money supply and the rate of growth of the demand for money for transaction purposes . |
| 13 | directly on the rate of change of firms ’ profit margins ( k ) . |
| 14 | The general form of the model employs the rate of change of prices ( ΔP ) , the rate of change of wages ( ΔW ) , the level and/or rate of change of unemployment ( U or ΔU ) , together with the ( lagged ) level of union density ( D&subt-1 ; ) as determinants of the proportional rate of change of union membership ( ΔT ) , i.e. with the anticipated positive ( + ) and negative ( - ) influences shown in brackets . |
| 15 | Of the four basic variables utilised , the rate of change of wages is not significant and has the wrong ( negative ) sign . |
| 16 | Simply stated , it claimed — on the basis of long-run data on wages and unemployment — that there was a trade-off between the level of unemployment and the rate of change of wages ; and that union bargaining and other influences such as changes in the structure of the labour market — were of secondary importance in in the process of determining the level of wages and , presumably , wage-costs . |
| 17 | For example , from 1973 to 1978 the money supply rose by 306 per cent , while the cost of living rose by 123 per cent ; thereafter , for five or six years the rate of growth of the money supply was less than the rate of increase of prices , especially in 1981 and 1983–5 . |
| 18 | As with chimneys , so with synapses ; if they are constructed — or even reconstructed — during learning , one might expect a brief increase in the rate of synthesis of proteins over the time when an animal was being trained and memory was being formed . |
| 19 | the average rate of formation of stars in the Galaxy |
| 20 | If they did , the rate of reproduction of bacteria is such that 10 million copies of the New Testament could be run off in a single day , a missionary 's dream if only people could read the DNA alphabet but , alas , the characters are so small that all 10 million copies of the New Testament could simultaneously dance upon the surface of a pin 's head . |
| 21 | To do so , it is necessary briefly to increase the rate of insertion of bricks at a particular point in the house — the roof — without changing the rate of removal ; bricks thus accumulate as the chimney is constructed . |
| 22 | Once it is in place , the rate of insertion of bricks can decrease once more to its previous level , in balance with the rate of removal . |
| 23 | So that the annual average rate of provision of dwellings in North Yorkshire is something like three thousand one hundred and eighty two dwellings . |
| 24 | It also cost the German central bank a guarantee of a fixed future rate of conversion of dollars into marks . |
| 25 | Earlier in this chapter we described the rate of referral of cases to the development officers , and Table 3. 1 shows the size of their case load month by month . |
| 26 | The difference ( positive or negative ) between the rate of growth of GDP and the combined , weighted rate of growth of inputs of labour and capital , known as total factor input ( TFI ) , gives the rate of growth of productivity . |
| 27 | In common with most other professional bodies the Institute has seen a substantial increase in the rate of growth of complaints against members in recent years ; in 1991 , we received 20% more complaints than in 1990 . |
| 28 | Here the variance in velocity fluctuations on a scale R is related to the power spectrum by where is the ratio of the rate of growth of fluctuations compared with the expansion rate . |
| 29 | The program drives a dynamic RAM camera and processes the resulting picture to obtain a measure of the rate of growth of plants grown in boxes or pots . |
| 30 | These policies were incorporated into the Fifth Plan , formulated in 1964 and 1965 , which aimed at an annual rate of growth of profits of 8.6 per cent between 1964 and 1970 . |