"rate" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Hours before the hurricane hit, the Connecticut River was 12 feet above flood stage and rising at the rate of six inches an hour.
- Heavy snow was continuously reported, falling at rates of up to 4 inches (10 cm) per hour.
- The water rose at an alarming rate of 3 to 6 inches an hour.
- With draining, the water table drops and so does the land, at a present rate of eight inches a century.
- It grows at an annual rate of roughly 6 inches for the first three years of its life.
- The snow was mounting at the rate of two inches an hour or faster.
- The growth of hair is usually at the rate of 0.5 inches per month.
- During the middle of the day, it advanced at the rate of ten inches and a fraction in five hours.
- It was just touching the skin and descending at the rate of approximately two inches per hour.
- The plates are pulling apart at a rate of eight inches a year, faster than anywhere else on earth.
Click on the heading to expand the collocation groups, collocations and sample sentences.