Example sentences of "rate of [noun] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chronological extrapolation to Western Europe then required the postulation of models about the rate of diffusion of ideas . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | directly on the rate of change of firms ’ profit margins ( k ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Of the four basic variables utilised , the rate of change of wages is not significant and has the wrong ( negative ) sign . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | the average rate of formation of stars in the Galaxy |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | So that the annual average rate of provision of dwellings in North Yorkshire is something like three thousand one hundred and eighty two dwellings . |
| 17 | It also cost the German central bank a guarantee of a fixed future rate of conversion of dollars into marks . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In the years of heaviest recession ( measured in this case as 1977–81 ) , the rate of loss of jobs in foreign-owned establishments was on average lower than that of all UK privately-owned establishments . |
| 25 | Some part of an organism 's chromosomes have a high rate of turnover of genes , and are called ‘ hot spots ’ which locally have a very high mutation rate . |
| 26 | This might be due to the ineffectiveness of treatment , to a slow rate of progression of tumours , to competing causes of death , or , most likely , to a combination of all these factors . |
| 27 | ‘ We can judge by the rate of sale of books in the catalogue , and we were pleased with it . |