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Example sentences for "certain rate"

  • That third hypothesis is that nature is uniform: if a body is free to move it will, in the future as in the past, tend to move at a certain rate, provided that nature is uniform.

  • To play the game at all, it is necessary to have some knowledge (or to act as though we had some knowledge) of how the pieces move, to know that bishops move diagonally, that bodies tend to gravitate at a certain rate.

  • The law of gravitation then, like every other law of science, from the very terms in which it is stated, contains two hypotheses: if bodies are free to move, then they tend to move at a certain rate.

  • It was part of your bargain for your land, that you were to give your fish at a certain rate?

  • I suppose what you mean is, that you are obliged to live at a certain rate of expenditure, and that you cannot reduce that rate any lower, however poor your fishing may be?

  • The collier, on the other hand, works for wages fixed at a certain rate, and the only element of uncertainty is the quantity of his out-put.

  • When the object reaches a certain rate of vibration its molecules disintegrate, and resolve themselves into the original elements or atoms.

  • The conductors were divided into three classes: The first of which received a certain rate of pay per month the first year of service; an addition of ten per cent.

  • When you come to the conductors, they receive a certain rate, which I do not remember, for the first year, and ten per cent.

  • When promoted from firemen to engineers, they receive a certain rate, and the second year ten per cent.

  • There is nothing novel about this, as several railroad charters have been granted with a provision that all earnings, over an amount necessary to provide a certain rate of interest, should be paid to the State.

  • One proposal which has been made is somewhat along the lines on which it is proposed to finance the New York Subways, the profits to be divided between the railroads and the State, after a certain rate of interest had been earned.

  • If a certain rate of interest is fixed as the maximum which may be earned, all incentive toward improvement or progress is removed.

  • Also at Harvest yearly there is a certain rate of Corn to be paid by every man according to the Land they hold and enjoy.

  • All sorts of Tradesmen also, and such as by their Skill can any ways get Money, at the New year are to pay into the Treasury each one a certain rate.

  • The ordinary work they do for them is mending their Tools, for which every Man pays to his Smith a certain Rate of Corn in Harvest time according to ancient Custom.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    certain circumstances; certain class; certain death; certain evening; certain extent; certain general; certain height; certain insects; certain members; certain minimum; certain moments; certain objects; certain occasion; certain parts; certain people; certain portion; certain quantity; certain quarters; certain sections; certain sort; certain special; certain thing; certain value; certain young; certainly will; external goods