Sentence examples for rate- from inspiring English sources

It said that if automatic spending cuts go into force and all the Bush-era tax cuts expire, the nation would slip into recession next year and unemployment would rise to 9.1 percent, from October's rate of 7.9 percent.

These costs aren't trivial: a 2001 study showed that the cost of switching a loan came to about a third of the loan's annual interest rate.

I have always argued that the deficit needs to come down, but at a rate that is credible.

There is more to an economic recovery than optimism and a low unemployment rate.

10 February: Activists claim rockets are hitting Baba Amr at the rate of one every three minutes.

A survey by the UKHCA found the average rate across the UK was £13.66 an hour, with Liverpool and neighbouring Knowsley councils paying less than £11.

Problem: Forests in Africa are being cut down at a rate of 4m hectares a year, more than twice the worldwide average rate.

After Cooper's interview, Burnham made it clear that he too supported the idea of a 50p top rate of income tax to help with reduction of the deficit and warned against any move by the party to ape the Conservatives.

She also made it clear that she would keep Labour's policy of bringing back a 50p top rate of income.

Successive laws passed by New Labour have pared down our liberty at an astonishing rate.

You say I have 'pared down our liberty at an astonishing rate', then list a whole lot of fundamental rights, as if these had all been drastically curtailed.