Instead of beating 60 to 100 times a minute, the heart can begin pumping at a rapid, irregular rate of several hundred times a minute.
Even if the flow drops from the current rate of several thousand a day to a few hundred, the rate would rival the peak periods of 2014.
Twitter posts can be generated at the rate of several thousand per second for some news events.
Made in Vietnam in vast numbers, they were being shipped back at the rate of several thousand a day at the height of the conflict.
Some of you have been accruing compensation at a rate of several hundred thousand dollars per employee — and that includes the secretaries.
Mr. Putnam, who lobbied colleagues opposed to the plan, said they were reporting that calls against the bailout were pouring in at the rate of several hundred to every one supporting it.
Across the great expanse of Russia — on plots cleared of birch groves and decrepit factories, on the territory of old airports and collective farms — big-box stores are rising at a rate of several a month.
If the earth crosses one of these dusty lanes, the result is a meteor storm, in which shooting stars appear at a rate of several thousand per hour for a short while.
Slow convection currents deep within the mantle generated by radioactive heating of the interior drive lateral movements of the plates (and the continents on top of them) at a rate of several centimetres per year.
(The absenteeism rate of several of the show's principals this early in the run indicates that the MTV back-catalogue isn't easy to belt out eight times a week).
Nearly 80,000 people have enrolled in health plans through California's online marketplace, at a rate of several thousand a day in November — a sizable increase over a month ago, state officials said on Thursday.
