Sentence examples for a sensible rate from inspiring English sources

We don't ask time to turn backward, as the wistful poet did; we only ask that it proceeds at a sensible rate one that will let us settle down comfortably inside a year and watch the scenery drifting past and listen to the not very rapid talk of our friends.

Some individuals do not appreciate the endless emails, so it will be a measurable act to attempt to get your emails going out at a sensible rate.

Alongside higher fees, the current zero per cent interest rate charged on student loans would need to be raised to a more "sensible" rate, he added.

ONCE the course is set, an experienced rider, either the day before the pace or early the same morning, secretly runs the route at a lively but sensible rate, as if keeping up with a pack of hounds on a run.

It's all a bit precious and predictable, and it would have benefited from a more sensible rating.

Dr Cable wouldn't change the new 50p higher rate of income tax now, but "when normal conditions return it seems to us that 40p is a sensible top rate, in due course".

"In addition, a sensible interest rate should be introduced on student loans, set at the current government cost of borrowing, to rectify the huge subsidy that the government currently pays".

So why, after 12 happy years atop our rocky, wooded hill, am I feeling less snug and — even with a sensible fixed-rate mortgage — not at all smug?

We simply want to see a sensible, fair lending rate cap".

To the old Yorkshiremen that might have been a mark of honour and a cause for celebration (well, a cup of milky tea and a sensible biscuit at any rate), but when you come from the islands of Learie Constantine, Everton Weekes and Garry Sobers I bet you really have to fight for your right not to party.

IF YOU want to really test an economist, ask them to give you a sensible forecast of exchanges rates.