There is in every society or neighbourhood an ordinary or average rate, both of wages and profit, in every different employment of labour and stock.
As the price of any commodity rises above the ordinary or average rate, the profits of at least some part of the stock that is employed in bringing it to market, rise above their proper level, and as it falls they sink below it.
In our present species a young internode, placed in front of a window, made three narrow ellipses, transversely to the direction of the light, at anaverage rate of 2 hrs.
A shoot made three revolutions against the sun at an average rate of 3 hrs.
The thin upper internodes revolve, moving against the course of the sun, precisely like those of a true twiner, at an average rate, judging from three revolutions, of 3 hrs.
The plant is worth what it would naturally cost to duplicate it; and an average rate of interest on that sum is the natural return from it.
On the other hand, the lowest rates prevail where no permanent organizations exist; and if a strike should arise here, should the tribunal take an average rate of pay as its standard?
Average rate of growth [without consideration also of density], therefore, has little significance in grading structural timber.
An analysis of tests on large beams was made to ascertain if average rate of growth has any relation to the mechanical properties of the beams.
An average rate of growth, indicated by from 12 to 16 rings per inch, seems to produce the best material.
We had been already fourteen days upon the road, ten of which had been spent on tramp, advancing at an average rate of twenty-five miles a day.
Alcibiade stood in high favour, and received in wages thirty dollars per calendar month, or an average rate of twenty-two shillings and sixpence a week.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "average rate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
