Sentence examples for rate collection from inspiring English sources

Reports often cite the collapse in 2001 of a housing benefit administration contract with Lambeth council, south London - "Capita's Dunkirk", as north-west divisional director Terry Boynes calls it - but rarely mention that the company still runs other services for Lambeth and has delivered sharp improvements in council tax and business rate collection.

Becoming active in the politics of the London Borough of Camden, Livingstone was elected Chair of Camden's Housing Committee; putting forward radical reforms, he democratized council housing meetings by welcoming local people, froze rents for a year, reformed the rate collection system, changed rent arrears procedures and implemented further compulsory purchase orders to increase council housing.

These have different advantages and disadvantages in aspects of air sample flow rate, collection efficiency (which usually varies with particle size), power consumption, length of sample period, length of period they can be left unattended and ease of processing the samples.

Rate collections of familial aggregates of gastric cancer have been reported, but are distinctly unusual.

The gallery has a first-rate collection of ceramics, but it also houses the Staffordshire Hoard – the largest and most valuable collection of Anglo-Saxon gold ever found.

The Addison Gallery in Andover owned a first-rate collection of American art, and the school had a studio-art program with a wonderful teacher named Patrick Morgan.

Helmut Lang cut fall-away panels into his first-rate collection, while Marc Jacobs at Louis Vuitton severed chic coats into horizontal segments.

"It's a first-rate collection," said William H. Truettner, a curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and a consultant on the project.

Art tends to cluster in such places, in this instance seeded by a wealthy lawyer's 1946 bequest to the city of a first-rate collection of Expressionist painting.

Novelist Robert Stone published a first-rate collection of short stories, Fun with Problems, only his second in his long career as a writer.

Ms. Sander, who early on amassed a first-rate collection of contemporary art, has an easy way of adapting art's strategies to her own more utilitarian ends.