Sentence examples for rate a bit from inspiring English sources

"My own gut feeling is that we need to speed up the rate a bit," he said.

This leaves the Republican rate a bit below where it was in the 1970s, while ownership for Democrats is nearly half of what it was in that decade.

Of the top economies, only Japan's total output seems likely to shrink, and even bearish forecasters expect the world to grow at about a 2percentt rate, a bit faster than during international slumps in 1982 and 1991.

And the signs that we have reached our limits, though clear enough, are also fairly subtle: a modest increase in inflation, mainly due to oil but with some uptick in the "core" rate that supposedly excludes transitory factors, an acceleration of wage increases to a rate a bit more than productivity growth.

The Fed would regard $85 billion a month as a relatively aggressive effort to bolster demand, akin to cutting the Federal funds rate a bit more every month.Second, outsiders routinely ignore the sentence in every FOMC statement that QE will depend on its "likely efficacy and costs", but they shouldn't.

Consensus may be building on increasing the estate and gift tax exemption to an equivalent $3,500,000 per spouse with an estate rate a bit under 50%.

Nevertheless, raising interest rates a bit would be beneficial on several counts, Mr. Petzel maintains.

Airwaves Through its first five N.H.L. games, OLN is averaging a 0.3 rating, a bit higher than ESPN2 had for its first five games in October 2003.

Sky gives each programme a "passion" rating, a bit like the BBC's "fresh and new" score, depending on customer feedback.

The increase in the issuing of Treasury bills, notes and bonds to cover the deficit borrowing could edge interest rates a bit higher.

This week's review recommends re-complicating rates a bit, and once again paying dentists partly according to the number of NHS patients on their books.