| 单词 | rate |
| 例句 | ‘At any rate,’ Thalia said, ‘we’re keeping an eye on Nico and the satyr. Unauthorized males aren’t allowed anywhere near this place, but we left them a note so they wouldn’t worry.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z At any rate, I'm sure they’d both agree on keeping me locked up here inside the district with that fence. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z It doesn’t seem to bother her, or at any rate she doesn’t want to talk about it. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z At some mysterious and critical point, the crime rate began to turn. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z You get the low rates after Labor Day, and your lease expires in June. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z They had rated inclusion in the photograph because of some combination of rank, research contributions, and general esteem in the eyes of their bosses. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z It is extremely unlikely, therefore, that the death penalty, as currently practiced in the United States, exerts any real influence on crime rates. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z At any rate he still saw that behind him nothing had changed. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z Her heart rate was way down, her body temperature had dropped. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z “At any rate, it’s been a long time since I’ve been out there. Anything going on I need to know about?” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z It seemed that in the confusion and the mingling of many companies of various kinds they had not been missed, not yet at any rate. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Today, over 50 percent of prison and jail inmates in the United States have a diagnosed mental illness, a rate nearly five times greater than that of the general adult population. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “Get the weekly rate,” he suggests in a quiet voice. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Second, studies have shown again and again that nothing lowers recidivism rates like education. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Nhamo wrestled it free, but water began to seep in at an alarming rate. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But, like all farmers, he had to contend with high taxes, high freight rates, and land so worn out that he might spend more for guano than he could get for his cotton crop. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z But yesterday, at any rate, during the Two Minutes Hate, she had sat immediately behind him when there was no apparent need to do so. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z At the rate she was going, she’d have this puzzle solved before the end of the weekend. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z "At any rate there's no zoo on the island. He'll have a bit of trouble getting over that." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z Unlike many keeplocks, he had no problem with authority—or no problem with me, at any rate. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Their heart rates began climbing toward 160 or 170 beats per minute. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “At any rate, some of the prophecy is becoming clear. Foes bearing arms to the Doors of Death...that means Romans and Greeks. We have to combine forces to find those doors.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z But it was a telemarketer, a young, male American who was offering better long-distance and international phone rates. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z My father would have rated it as one short step above firewood. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “No, I don’t think so. It’s in my head. It’s in my heart. When I sit down to play, it will pour out of me. That’s the plan, at any rate.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z At any rate, the film project never happened, at least not to my knowledge. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z The bear chased him for a little piece, but at the rate Old Yeller was leaving her behind, Mama said it looked like the bear was backing up. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z He was formed like a dove, but his color was dark and hard to tell in the moonlight; at any rate, he showed up clearly on the white sand. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z To begin with, it is extremely unlikely that a strategy based purely on costs, crime rates, and the wisdom of drug treatment will get us back even to the troubling incarceration rates of the 1970s. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z At best, history is classified among the social sciences, of which it rates as the least scientific. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z At this rate it’ll take fifteen hours to get back to shore. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Within one year of the abortion ban, the Romanian birth rate had doubled. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z In the movies, you can achieve slow motion in two ways, first, by overcranking, basically capturing each frame at a much faster rate with your camera than it will be played back on a projector. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z At any rate, I'd be lucky if I wrote a page a day. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z At any rate it gave him no inspiration. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The counselor there told them that the recidivism rate for African American boys was seventy-three percent. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z If you are taking a trip and have the choice of driving or flying, you might wish to consider the per-hour death rate of driving versus flying. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z At the same Tipping Point, the rates of childbearing for teenaged girls — which barely move at all up to that point — nearly double. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z His collection rate was about 95 percent; he attributed the underpayment to oversight, not fraud. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z He asks me to give each day a rating between one and ten. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z There were men standing near the checkpoint selling Guinean currency at whatever rate they pleased. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The phoenix gains a X X X X rating not because it is aggressive, but because very few wizards have ever succeeded in domesticating it. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “At this rate, it’ll take the rest of the week just to get down the hall,” she said, pulling her arms from the ice. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z It had long been known that the Earth radiated appreciable amounts of heat–that was apparent to anyone who went down a coal mine–but there wasn’t any way of estimating the rate of dissipation. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I would rate the day I went blind as the day my extreme suffering began. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z He did not know how long he had been there; some hours, at any rate; with no clocks and no daylight it was hard to gauge the time. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Under his influence courage was quickened and fear banished, at any rate for the moment. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z For the first time in Jack’s life, food was rationed. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z At any rate, I was positive I had spotted her. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z To combat it, spraying with DDT was begun, first in a small way, then at a suddenly accelerated rate in 1953. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Then I can’t play it. I’m only allowed to play games that are rated E.” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z And high rates of immigration and immigrant success stories seem to hammer home the point: The rules of advancement have changed. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z I took Gran’s initial resting heart rate, counting a total of thirty-four beats for thirty seconds, and scribbled sixty-eight in my notebook. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z At any rate, he showed neither jealousy nor resentment. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Happiness, of course, is a complete absurdity at this point, since at the rate things are going, I’ll be dead in a day. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z While the other girls grumbled that their piece rates had dropped so that it had hardly been worth slaving through the summer heat, she kept her silence. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Michael Tonry explains in Thinking About Crime: “Governments decide how much punishment they want, and these decisions are in no simple way related to crime rates.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Libby determined that the rate at which cosmic rays create CH is roughly equal to the rate at which it decays. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Giles de Retz had been found to have no less than a ton of children’s bones, calcined, in his castle, after having murdered them at the rate of twelve score a year for nine years. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z For one thing, the exchange rate was bad and the rooms—besides being paid in advance, and with my money—were already rather more than I could afford. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “I did some work at the docks in Juneau. At any rate, if it can make a polar bear smell good, just think what it can do for you.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “I feel sure that Count Andrenyi will be reasonable. At any rate, let us make the attempt.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z At a conservative flow rate of two liters per minute, each bottle would last between five and six hours. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z This extraordinary rate of oxygen intake is of only so much value, it should be noted. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z In any case, they can get married only after the war, since Bertus is in hiding, or at any rate has gone underground. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z They forced women into slave marriage with the King for the purpose of reproducing their babies at a high rate. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z This seems to be the earliest usage of the term ‘hypothesis’ in its standard modern sense, at any rate in English. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z When researchers have controlled for joblessness, differences in violent crime rates between young black and white men disappear. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Miscegenation laws were declared unconstitutional, and the rate of interracial marriage climbed. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z While crime rates fall and the economy prospers, far more people than ever before are getting locked up, mainly due to mandatory sentencing for drug crimes. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Not now, at any rate. They can be infuriatingly patient if they know someone’s wounded.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z I went on to the back, where old Job was uncrating them, at the rate of about three bolts to the hour. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z As long as you never used it, I did not think that the Ring would have any lasting effect on you, not for evil, not at any rate for a very long time. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z It wasn’t even rationed, like sleep or bread. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Pollard didn’t need to hold him back, or “rate” him, in the early part of workouts; the horse knew that the homestretch was where the real running was done. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z And at the rate I’d been going, I’d have messed things up with her and lost the chance to make her see that I was her perfect guy. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The Party claimed that the infant mortality rate was now only a hundred and sixty per thousand, whereas before the Revolution it had been three hundred—and so it went on. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z It is not, any more than sipping cola or rating chairs or tasting jam is easy. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Because she felt strangely sorry for him, she asked whether he had rates better than fifty-seven cents a minute to Nigeria. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z By the end of each opera they are cropping up at an astonishing rate, sometimes several in every bar. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z But higher rates of imprisonment did have a lot to do with it. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z As Seabiscuit was apt to fight any direct attempts to rate him, Smith told his riders to adjust the horse’s speed with steering. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In terms of evidence gained from animal experiments we shall see that five or possibly six of the pesticides must definitely be rated as carcinogens. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But how many things really move at a constant rate like a train in a math problem? Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z What linguists call speech rate — the number of speech sounds per second — equalizes. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But pathologists soon realized that too many variables—from the humidity in the air to the type of clothing on the corpse—affect the rate of decomposition to allow a precise calculation. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z If he watches a couple for fifteen minutes, his success rate is around 90 percent. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z People in prison are literally erased from the nation’s economic picture, leading standard estimates to underestimate the true jobless rate by as much as 24 percentage points for less-educated black men. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z By picking the right rotation rate, we could be as light or as heavy as we chose. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z After all, anyone selling a home can now get online and gather her own information about sales trends and housing inventory and mortgage rates. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The enormously complicated sequence of movements, each of which an oarsman must execute with exquisite precision, becomes exponentially more difficult to perform as the stroke rate increases. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It was decided to abolish the love of nature, at any rate among the lower classes; to abolish the love of nature, but not the tendency to consume transport. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Since the universe would already be expanding just as in the hot big bang model, the repulsive effect of this cosmological constant would therefore have made the universe expand at an ever-increasing rate. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Flies in Canada, for example, have been slower to develop resistance than those in southern United States, where long hot summers favor a rapid rate of reproduction. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z At any rate, she certainly had been carrying on a witch-hunt in the brown kitchen recently, asking him all sorts of questions concerning his political philosophy. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Cal responded, quickly and decisively, raising its rate and pulling even, then moving quickly out in front by half a length. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Maybe the tombstone had sunk at the same rate as the erosion, and the body was only a foot away below me—or an inch. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z She takes my temperature, blood pressure, heart and pulse rates before declaring that I am simply lovesick. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Then by careful measurements of their respiration, it was found that the fermentation rate was markedly above normal, just as Warburg had foreseen. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z As they came around the bend and into the final stretch, the Cal freshmen tried to rally, edging their rate up to thirty-four. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The extraordinarily high rates of poverty, crime, and unemployment in Chester intersected with the worst-ranked public school system among Pennsylvania's 501 districts. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “Don’t be silly. I could use the excitement. Gets my heart rate up.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z In this fantasy, eventually race will no longer be a factor in mortality rates, the spread of disease, educational or economic opportunity, or the distribution of wealth. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Something else, then. At any rate, you exert a powerful influence.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The kill rate in humans infected with, Ebola Zaire is nine out of ten. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The Jeep inched forward at a painfully slow rate, made all the more excruciating by the anticipation building in Artemis’s chest. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The heart rate falls and brain waves begin to look like a drive across the prairies. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “Something that multiplies at the same rate and type as the shield itself.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z They thought the carefully stored bag was probably full of gold; at any rate, they wanted to see what was in it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “It is at any rate a pleasure to meet such ontologically improbable creatures.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Burt introduced me to an economics professor at the faculty cafeteria, one well known for his work on the economic factors affecting interest rates. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z “No bugs either. Nothing detectable at any rate. But what do we have here?” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z At any rate, I’m glad that Algernon is no longer alone. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z That’s about two hundred thousand dollars, at the current exchange rate. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Either her doctors had missed it during her last exams—which seemed impossible—or it had grown at a terrifying rate. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Or what if I post my commission rates and people just fall over laughing? Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z Unfortunately for the farmers, the death rate then dropped in the second year to 90 percent and eventually to 25 percent, frustrating hopes of eradicating rabbits completely from Australia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z ‘They are — at first sight at any rate,’ laughed Pippin with sudden relief after reading Gandalf’s letter. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z It is claimed that you can teach your kidneys to change the rate of urine formation, raise or lower your blood pressure, change your heart rate, write different brain waves, at will. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The Virginia gentry were psychologically incapable of sharing Hamilton’s affinity with men who made their living manipulating interest rates. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z As a form of protest, they did not have a high success rate and the rationale behind them always struck me as quixotic. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1982, the thirty-seven murders that took place inside Ector County gave Odessa the distinction of having the highest murder rate in the country. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Sanderson told the family lawyer that at any rate there was really nothing in the house Luke could steal. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Not a single person had been killed—-he spared everybody indifferently as soon as he had knocked than down—and, by the Chevalier at any rate, not a single word had been spoken. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a survival thing: he didn’t answer back, didn’t say anything about job security for prison guards, debate the nature of repentance, rehabilitation, or rates of recidivism. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Behind his implacable gaze, wheels were turning at an even faster rate than usual. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, black men have been admitted to state prison on drug charges at a rate that is more than thirteen times higher than that of white men. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z We climbed a few steps and entered a large, sparsely decorated house. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Some of them are kids’ books and some are adult books but I can read anything because my reading score is so high they can’t even rate it. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z They both had electrodes and sensors clipped to their fingers and ears, which measured things like their heart rate, how much they were sweating, and the temperature of their skin. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z And, critically, the higher the stroke rate, the harder it is to keep all the many individual movements of the crew synchronized. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z President Johnson’s approval rating shot up fourteen percentage points. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He said something quickly about the good rate of exchange ‘in their own country.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Axis orientations affected the rate of spread of crops and livestock, and possibly also of writing, wheels, and other inventions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Of the 352 men who worked on the bridge’s notorious east caisson, pressure-related illness killed twelve, left two crippled for life, and injured sixty-six others, a casualty rate of over 20 percent. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z At any rate, you are on the memory property ladder. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z His breathing had steadied still more and his heart rate was close to normal. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z But by the half-mile mark, Washington had crept up and nosed ahead of them without raising its stroke rate. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z No more campaigning, no more sweating out strategy sessions or polls or debates or approval ratings, ever again. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z By the time I reentered, the guests were in open debate, and the discussion - with much talk of commerce and interest rates - was quite beyond me. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z “At this rate we’ll reach six million in a little under seventeen years.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z “Julian,” he said curtly, “will never be a scholar of the very first rate, and that is because he is only capable of seeing things on a selective basis.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Having seized the lead, Cal dropped its rate down a bit, to a more sustainable thirty-two, and Grover Clark began blowing his whistle in time with the stroke count. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Hume knocked the stroke rate up just a bit, to thirty-six, and Washington swiftly walked past Cal seat by seat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He was given an unsatisfactory evaluation rating, placed on probation for a year, and had his salary frozen. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z At any rate, it was hard to know what to make of the new President Roosevelt. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z At that rate, one bomb core would be produced by July 1, 1945. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Studies have shown that joblessness—not race or black culture—explains the high rates of violent crime in poor black communities. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Because they are so little regarded, even by naturalists, mussels have vanished at an exceptional rate. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z My heart rate picks up as I do, like I am breaking the rules and will be scolded for it. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Inns on the route had upped their rates; ferrymen were charging extra to transport people and carriages across rivers. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z By the end of 1993, the rate of property crime and violent crime, including homicides, had already fallen nearly 20 percent. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z There were five of them, two officers, three ratings, a gleaming group of fresh white, blue and gold. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Even for geologists it barely rates a footnote. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z All mice disappeared down the vipers’ gullets at the usual rate. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The boy was being paid more money than he deserved, because the merchant, thinking that sales wouldn’t amount to much, had offered the boy a high commission rate. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z At any rate the foremost one fell, and the others slid after it. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z His eyes are glassy, his heart rate high. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Applying his “worldwide rate of dental microevolution” to the three migrations, Turner came up with roughly similar dates of emigration. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z "Did you know," Matilda said suddenly, "that the heart of a mouse beats at the rate of six hundred and fifty times a second?" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z “The brutal fact is that we have been losing ground at an increasing rate,” McNamara warned in a memo soon after Rolling Thunder began. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z "No man calls me a thief—not more than once, at any rate." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z After my initial burst of 50 liters, I decided to settle down and just make it at the rate I get 02. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Let’s just talk,” I say, my heart rate off the charts. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z He had rather guessed the Laphams would side with the Tories, but this was fraternizing with the troops at a great rate. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “In the end, the way interest rates are fluctuating, a serious delay could cost a mint.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But to believe that dissecting the tragic events of 1996 in minute detail will actually reduce the future death rate in any meaningful way is wishful thinking. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The initial rate of expansion also would have had to be chosen very precisely for the rate of expansion still to be so close to the critical rate needed to avoid recollapse. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It is insanely difficult to keep a good swing as you raise your rate. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “We’ll never get there by nightfall at this rate! I told you we should have left earlier. I don't want to be caught in the country in the darkness.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z At any rate, Maddie saw me twice in the air and never got to say hello. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z As indeed it had: no change for the worse had yet come upon the beer or the victuals at The Pony, at any rate. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z After checking his heart rate, temperature, and weight, she announced, “Dr. Spires will be with y’all shortly.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Briony felt her heart rate rise as she began her unwilling descent. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z At any rate, in San Francisco in 1974, life was working hard to give me one. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z On rainy days, she left earlier and walked to school slower so that she would be soaking wet and rate the privilege of drying in the furnace room. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “At any rate you will report to the police at Montreux.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z “We have a special weekly rate,” the man offers. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe it has to do with his father. You never really get over a thing like that. At any rate, the kid attacked two police officers over on Bryant Street earlier this afternoon.” The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z At the same time, the exertion required to maintain a high rate makes the physical pain all the more devastating and therefore the likelihood of a miscue greater. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z To stop the blood loss, Kelley had pinched off an artery using a hemostat, something he wasn’t officially rated to use. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z I’m not sure that what I am about to describe really rates as a startling coincidence. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z When I asked what that meant, Mom said, “The TV show, Albie. It got very good ratings.” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z Everyone else in the boat rows at the rate and power at which the stroke rows. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It was flowing into his yard at an astonishing rate. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z A boat with both a very high stroke rate and very powerful strokes will beat a boat that can’t match it on both counts. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z African Americans are not significantly more likely to use or sell prohibited drugs than whites, but they are made criminals at drastically higher rates for precisely the same conduct. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But at any rate, I couldn’t forget her. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z It was a little, spiky thing that threw out dozens of arms and covered these arms with green and grew larger at the rate of about an inch every two seconds. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z If one drops two bodies that don’t have much air resistance, such as two different lead weights, they fall at the same rate. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z After decades of decline, black infant mortality began to soar in the 1980s, as did the rate of low-birthweight babies and parent abandonment. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Technology’s history exemplifies what is termed an autocatalytic process: that is, one that speeds up at a rate that increases with time, because the process catalyzes itself. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Only you could get into trouble in a town this small. You would have devastated their crime rate statistics for a decade, you know.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Although the suicide rate in most other wealthy countries peaked in the early 1980s, it continues to climb in South Korea, doubling since 2000. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z She didn’t understand the words, most of them at any rate, but created equal was not lost on her. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Sometimes, I discover, my favorite subject, which is the abysmal rate of pay, seems to be a painful one. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “And Albert, you can be in charge of rolling the dough. Going to try cookie dough today to see if the letters cook at a similar rate to cake.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z And at any rate, even if he had carried an extra pound here or there, the roughly three pounds devoted to his brain would have more than made up for it. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “We need a maid to clean out the cells. Dying men do puke out some terrible things, they do. You’re a steadfast girl. Tell your mistress we’d pay her the going rate for your services.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The neon sign advertised hourly rates, free Wi-Fi, and color television, as if some rivals might only be using black-and-white ones. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z At this rate I’m going to have to learn sign language. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z However, if it was expanding at more than a certain critical rate, gravity would never be strong enough to stop it, and the universe would continue to expand forever. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z There was some sense at any rate in keeping a guard, while ruffians were still about. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “On a scale of one to ten, ten being the most stressful, rate your current stress level.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z “I do. At any rate, we’re overdue for a Level Five security drill,” says Coin. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Thirteen out of the 26 children guessed correctly that anteaters ate ants, which wasn’t a good response rate for the first clue. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She could hear his heart beating loudly as though it were pumping double, triple its normal rate. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Galileo’s measurements indicated that each body increased its speed at the same rate, no matter what its weight. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z At the rate the morning had gone, this trial might last for weeks, and I wasn’t sure how long I wanted to sit there sweating about being called up to testify. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z “Their loans carry very low interest rates, and if you go into teaching they’ll forgive ten percent of the loan for every year you teach, up to fifty percent.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z So every race is a balancing act, a series of delicate and deliberate adjustments of power on one hand and stroke rate on the other. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z At any rate it would have cost him most of his year’s earnings to buy Maddie one year of flying lessons. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Rising at this exponential rate, the craft quickly reached maximum acceleration, a limit defined not by the ship's power, but by the delicate human bodies inside. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “At this rate," he concluded, “you'll not only be the most despotic and bloody dictator in our history, but you'll shoot my dear friend Úrsula in an attempt to pacify your conscience." One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The pitch-darkness at night had led to a sharp increase in the murder rate. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z At any rate she saw a couple, a handsome, bearded gentleman with a well-dressed lady on his arm, walking toward her on the opposite side of Merrimack Street. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z At any rate, the two disappeared together, their bond unbroken by the assault. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Soils from apple orchards seem to reach the peak of contamination, with DDT accumulating at a rate that almost keeps pace with its rate of annual application. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Then finally when it was ready to ship, she’d like be, oh, hey, I don’t want it shipped hour rate, 1 want it slow, slow rate. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Pennsylvania, Navy, and California quickly moved out in front of the pack, rowing high at first, then gradually dropping their stroke rates into the low thirties. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He still believed in letting sick children alone, but with all of us sick—or all but Martha, at any rate—he became so lonesome he couldn’t stay away. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z His companions realized the urgency of the situation, but they saw that if Matthias continued to drive himself at this rate, he would soon collapse. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z ‘I had a good reason for that! At any rate, now Zeus blames me for everything - Octavian’s schemes, the fall of Delphi -’ ‘Wait.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z These gross racial disparities simply cannot be explained by rates of illegal drug activity among African Americans. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Winston was married—had been married, at any rate; probably he still was married, for so far as he knew his wife was not dead. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Scientists use something called a correlation to measure how closely one factor predicts another, and overall, the students’ ratings correlated with the experts’ ratings by .55, which is quite a high correlation. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Unemployment rates in black communities rival those in Third World countries. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She whispers to us that it’s why the cancer rate is so high in America. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z At any rate it was something to which Ned would now have to become accustomed. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He told Hume to drop the rate yet again, and Hume settled at a surprisingly low thirty-four. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Permian was rated a twenty-one-point favorite over the Rebels, and now would be the time for sweet redemption, to drive them, and everything they stood for, straight into the snot-assed ground from which they came. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z At any rate, it did not show up in his blood tests. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It gets a “perfect” rating on the game. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z He asked Cara if he could have a column about slang, and the editor in chief said okay, as long as everything in the column had a G rating. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z While mortality rates for yellow fever varied widely, it was not unusual for it to kill 50 percent of those who contracted it. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Even among prisoners on death row, the annual execution rate is only 2 percent—compared with the 7 percent annual chance of dying faced by a member of the Black Gangster Disciple Nation crack gang. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Reported street crime quadrupled, and homicide rates nearly doubled. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z They paid attention to things like late fees and interest rates; she mostly ignored them because she couldn’t pay the bills anyway. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z To feed my passion for reading, I checked out books at such a rate that the principal said to me, “Are you planning to read every single book in this library?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, the United States now boasts an incarceration rate that is six to ten times greater than that of other industrialized nations—a development directly traceable to the drug war. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Literacy rates climbed, and educated blacks began to populate legislatures, open schools, and initiate successful businesses. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z And the crime rate continued to fall as an entire generation came of age minus the children whose mothers had not wanted to bring a child into the world. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z ‘At any rate . Antinous turned to Jason. ‘We have gathered now for a much bigger prize. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The weather at any rate is still familiar. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z And my next step doesn’t come back down at a normal rate. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z At any rate I have lost my diffidence, my timidity, my shyness with strangers. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “Lower taxes and lower marginal tax rates are leading to more growth. There’s an explosion of wealth. We are so wealthy in a world that is profoundly poor.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The level of public concern about crime and drugs was only weakly correlated with actual crime rates, but highly correlated with political initiatives, campaigns, and partisan appeals. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Even though gas was rationed, Haupt was supposed to drive Kerling down to Florida to pick up the boxes of explosives that the second team had left behind after landing. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z The rate of survival when a mob of dead set in on a settlement ain’t good, according to the headline I saw in the paper. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Electricity was rationed from six PM to six AM, though sometimes it did not come on at all. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z But still, at that rate, it would be a matter of hours, not days, before the demon was free. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “My husband wanted us to move to America but I refused, because the education system is so bad. An international agency rated it the lowest in the developed countries, you know.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Buttercup’s case rated a close fourth on the all-time list. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “At any rate, you got my attention. I’m here. Now I need to see if you’re worthy of my help. Go ahead. Battle. If I’m impressed, I’ll jump in for the grand finale.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z From the early 1980s to the end of the decade, there was an almost 61 percent jump in the murder rate. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Later Neel concluded that the high death rate was in part due to grief and despair, rather than the virus itself. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The figures were not the same, nor was the interest rate. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Praised throughout the country, particularly in the nation’s newspapers, his approval rating reached an all-time high. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Even at rest, our hearts beat at a furious rate. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Burnham fought to boost the rate of construction, especially of the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, which had to be completed by Dedication Day. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Undertakers charged the Osage exorbitant rates for a funeral, trying to gouge them, and this was no exception. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Resistance to insecticides by mosquitoes of the anophelene group has surged upward at an astounding rate, being created by the thoroughness of the very house-spraying programs designed to eliminate malaria. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “We don’t, exactly. But we’ll try to chase him in a particular direction, and at any rate, the stag will likely run straight, down the most direct path.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z We travel slowly into the future all the time, at the rate of one day every day. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z On the other hand, vaccination rates for other diseases had skyrocketed, so it wasn't all bad news. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z It put her on equal footing with the other female supervisors and—theoretically, at least—with men of the same rating, and it afforded her a degree of center-wide visibility. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z If so, we should find that the groups with the lowest rates of alcoholism are those in which drinking of any kind is forbidden, such as Mormons or Muslims. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z But even in Los Angeles, a city notorious for bad policing, crime fell at about the same rate as it did in New York once the growth in New York’s police force is accounted for. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Fixers were designed to replicate under strictly regulated conditions, but the damaged Fixer replicates uncontrollably, at an exponential rate, using whatever materials are at hand. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z ‘If we reach the Fire in that time, we’ll be lucky at this rate!’ he thought. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The first is a singular word meaning “occurrence” or “rate.” Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But thanks to Hall’s phenomenal success rate he had no trouble filling the roster for this, his eighth expedition to Everest. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z But he worried at the rate they were going, that they wouldn’t be able to return to the protection song, which he hadn’t learned in its entirety. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z In fact at the present rate of decline this Saturday will probably be the end of your season and then you will join the 1986 team in history. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “It pushes us back at the same rate the wind pushes us forward. We sail at a fine clip, yet go nowhere.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Then about Negroes, mulattoes, mestizos, whites, the illiteracy rate—over 50 percent—and malaria. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z He set off at a great rate directly across the woodland, and after little more than a hundred paces, he jumped down a jutting bank. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z We rate our favorite Indian foods and joke that how the first thing we both want when we fly back from India is an actual Big Mac. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z “Once a month, it’s reserved for me and any potential business meetings I might have. I thought you might prefer some Western food, at any rate.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “The guys discussed all sorts of things,” he remembered, “like marriage, divorce, the high divorce rate among Hollywood stars.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Continued litigation about lethal injection protocols and other questions about the reliability of the death penalty slowed the execution rate in Alabama dramatically. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He found little difference in pregnancy rates or school drop-out rates in neighborhoods of between 40 and 5 percent of high- status workers. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z South Korea’s safety rating was downgraded by the US Federal Aviation Administration, and Canadian officials informed Korean Air’s management that they were considering revoking the company’s overflight and landing privileges in Canadian airspace. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z At any rate, it was worth finding out. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Libby's method was also based on the assumption that the amount of carbon-14 in the atmosphere, and the rate at which it has been absorbed by living things, has been consistent throughout history. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Media coverage of all the innocent people wrongly convicted had an effect on the death-sentencing rate in America, which began to decline in 1999. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z ‘I could at any rate; and you could too, if you kept your head and followed me carefully.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Better than Trent Bolger, at any rate, who was on the opposing team. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z The department had an unprecedented need for new officers right now, apparently due to higher-than-usual rates of retirement and attrition. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “At this rate, we’re going to run out of ambrosia,” Coach Hedge grumbled as he tended their wounds. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Or nothing I want to do at any rate. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The travellers stayed in Bree all the next day, and Mr. Butterbur could not complain of his business next evening at any rate. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z At any rate, when it came time for lunch, I declined to join the Yoshotos. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z One college scouting service rated him the second best defensive back prospect in the country, and after the season was over Evans became one of three defensive backs named to the Parade All-American team. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “You know. With mail rates five bucks a letter to Earth, I don’t write much.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Though the rate of violent crime in the country is down 20 percent since 1991, the number of people in prison or jail has risen by 50 percent. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z At any rate, there was a brutal vigour and anonymity to the conjugal proceedings in the piece. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z At any rate, we have proved one thing; that the spells of quietness last a reasonable time. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Beyond these important, admirable goals, it also had a more immediate purpose: it would undoubtedly reduce the school’s notoriously high failure rate, which had become an embarrassment to the school and to the school board. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z After Independence they found they were not entitled to any government benefits like job reservations or bank loans at low interest rates, because officially, on paper, they were Christians, and therefore caste- less. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Such, at any rate, would have been Lancelot’s explanation of the war. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z As a result we tend to overestimate the importance of new technology and underestimate the rate of production and the impact of new intellectual tools. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z By the summer of 2001, the overall rate had slipped to about 87 percent. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z There are firms, for example, that post new songs on the Web and then collect and analyze the ratings of anyone who visits the Website and listens to the music. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The stroke rate went up to thirty-eight, then almost immediately to forty. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z A mere ten days ago, after rooting around on the Internet for a little while, Molly located a cache of adoption registry services, narrowing her search to the one rated highest among users. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z But though, what with the new war, the unemployment rate was supposed to be dropping, there were still enough women around for the stores to be picky. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z The van Daans have been sleeping all winter long on the same flannel sheet, which can’t be washed because detergent is rationed and in short supply. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z He observed that the times at which the moons of Jupiter appeared to pass behind Jupiter were not evenly spaced, as one would expect if the moons went round Jupiter at a constant rate. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They looked at the faces of their subjects and rated how much anger they saw. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “At any rate, when you’re someone’s guest, you don’t correct her no matter how wrong she may be.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z In more than a dozen states, student performance on standardized tests accounts for 50 percent of a teacher’s rating. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Some segregationists went further, insisting that integration causes crime, citing lower crime rates in Southern states as evidence that segregation was necessary. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z At any rate, this wasn’t a good time to find out. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z None of this—outwardly, at any rate—agitates Smith. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z They attached me to machines to check my breathing and my heart rate. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z He wanted a model in which everything moved around a single centre at an unvarying rate, and he wanted this for aesthetic reasons as much as anything else. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z The speed of a racing shell is determined primarily by two factors: the power produced by the combined strokes of the oars, and the stroke rate, the number of strokes the crew takes each minute. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “At any rate, there’s no point in trying to find out what’s over the edge of this hill, because the answer is nothing.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z At any rate building went forward, slowly, painfully slowly, but at least it did go on. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z But Sam, remembering the overheard debate, found it hard to believe that the long submerged Sméagol had come out on top: that voice at any rate had not had the last word in the debate. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z At age forty, approximately one woman in a thousand develops breast cancer each year, whereas at age sixty the rate has risen to one in five hundred. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Today we have the highest rate of incarceration in the world. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Nina plunged his heart rate, and he dropped like a stone, conking his head on the banister. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Most strikingly, in a chain reaction in 94, “energy would be released at an explosive rate which might be described as a ‘super bomb.’ Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z There was a much lower death rate inside the hospital than outside the hospital, and a much healthier death rate. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z At that rate here might be a real Land of Youth somewhere. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z Icelanders are among the most literate in the world and the Icelandic sagas rate among the greatest in literature. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He began to assemble items at an alarming rate. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Our homicide rate is also much higher than in those countries. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z "At any rate, through our very position in the vanguard we must do and say the things necessary to get the greatest number of the people to move toward what is for their own good." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The cell enlarges, begins making new DNA at a great rate, and turns into what is termed, appropriately, a blast. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Once the taste of earth had settled his heart rate, he decided it was time to implement his escape plan. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z “If such preventive measures are not taken,” says Dr. Hueper, “the stage will be set at a progressive rate for the future occurrence of a similar disaster to the human population.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Some countries faced with rising drug crime or seemingly intractable rates of drug abuse and drug addiction chose the path of drug treatment, prevention, education, or economic investment. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In some states, black men have been admitted to prison on drug charges at rates twenty to fifty times greater than those of white men. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z They were buying the island back at the same bargain rate. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z It sort of registered that at the rate I was going my two-week supply would be gone in about five days, but I wasn’t worrying about that. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z “You’ll never finish the problems at this rate,” Mr. Morrison said. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Now, thanks to the educational seminars and emergency care provided by the clinic’s volunteer staff, that mortality rate has been cut to less than one death per 30,000 trekkers. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z In Darwin's scheme, the rate of change of an organism was generally fixed, while the rate of natural selection could be amplified to accelerate evolution or dampened to decelerate it. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The counselor said the rate was even higher if you didn’t finish high school. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z The Sudan strain was more than twice as lethal as Marburg virus—its case-fatality rate was 50 percent. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “You would think she would have left some bones or something. Or at any rate the armour.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z They arise at different times and progress at different rates. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The crime rate in fact began to fall—so unexpectedly and dramatically and thoroughly that now, from the distance of several years, it is almost hard to recall the crushing grip of that crime wave. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “Are you feeling anxious, honey? Your heart rate got a little high there.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Then Bobby Moch yelped at Hume to up the rate again, and the Clipper resumed advancing. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Upstairs, Kat got out the wallet of photos and flicked through them at the rate of one a second. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Snow fell from the clouds at the rate of an inch an hour. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z By and large, however, the hit rates are low. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z While young minority men with little schooling have always had relatively high rates of incarceration, “before the 1980s the penal system was not a dominant presence in the disadvantaged neighborhoods.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z At any rate, he felt more and more that he had to get to Berlin. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Declining crime rates, coupled with a decline in public concern about crime, have also helped to create a rare opening for a productive public conversation about the War on Drugs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She shakes her head, her fingertip fixed on the spot which, in her view, at any rate, identifies the Mary Janes. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Deciding what is art and rating a work of art are two separate problems. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “At any rate,” said I, “I have no warning given me just now, for you wrote to me to come to you, this time.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z They would leave the starting line with just enough of a surge to get some momentum behind the boat but then drop immediately to a low stroke rate of twenty-eight or twenty-nine. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Bloom noticed that we had rated Friday’s dinner “good” and barked out that we hadn’t eaten dinner at the Academy on Friday—we’d gone home. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Virtually everyone supplying goods and services to the city had raised their rates, explaining that shortages of items and the general danger forced up their costs. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z If Enrique had been there that day, I would have rated this a level four, the second-highest possible, which meant “Radioactive. Steer clear.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z “At any rate we could drag and push it like that so long as it was downhill.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Cameras flashed at such a blinding rate, the entire scene seemed to be lit by strobes. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z To understand the slavery that brought Africans to the New World, you must begin with the death rate on the sugar plantations. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z After the Neolithic Revolution the rate of change slowed almost to a crawl. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z On the Race IAT, I was rated as having a “moderate automatic preference for whites.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The child poverty rate is actually higher today than it was in 1968. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It was the most highly rated Miss Teen Dream Pageant ever. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Its take- up rates are accordingly very high, with roughly half of the CPS students opting out of their neighborhood school. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z As crack and guns flooded the cities and gangs battled over turf, the violent-crime rate for juveniles ages fifteen to seventeen doubled, as did the violent-crime rate for people ages eighteen to twenty. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Within a five-year period, the homicide rate among young urban blacks quadrupled. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z At any rate, Luke was amused, his aunt grateful, and Dr. Montague more than satisfied. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Shipman, who was rated among the top twenty players in the United States, grasped the boy’s potential. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Those postulated rates of spread and of population increase are very low compared with actual known rates for peoples occupying previously uninhabited or sparsely inhabited lands. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “At any rate, she’s the only one I have trouble with. She’s wily, that one. Always does her own thing, never roosts with the others. She gave me these.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Polls put his approval rating at just 36 percent. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z When the incarcerated population is counted in unemployment and poverty rates, the best of times for the rest of America have been among the worst of times for African Americans, particularly black men. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “At any rate,” Hecate said, “I turned her into a polecat. She’s much better as a polecat.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z When the woman asked how much she charged, Ann quoted her the going rate back home—thirty cents an hour or three dollars for a ten-hour day. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The rate of energy loss in the case of the earth and the sun is very low—about enough to run a small electric heater. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z If his eating habits were a movie, they’d be rated R for violence. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Butterbur had at any rate not changed his manner of talking, and still seemed to live in his old breathless bustle. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Which meant sea levels rising at an alarming and apocalyptic rate. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Music also has a direct impact on the heart rate. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z He was only rated as a minor sort of officer. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “At any rate she bore a fine son, who seems to have achieved the Grail.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “At any rate, he’s all right now. A good horse, too. A little chunk of granite. But make no mistakes—he ain’t no Seabiscuit.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z But, as time went on, it came to be made in an incredible profusion of shapes that rate as great art by the standards of any era. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z My heart rate still feels elevated; my chest, still pained. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Currently there are approximately five million people gleaned per year worldwide—a tiny fraction of the death rate in the Age of Mortality, and nowhere near enough to balance population growth. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z It would rate at least an hour on the lecture scale. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z The evidence linking increased punishment with lower crime rates is very strong. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z But the closer a crew can come to that ideal— maintaining a good swing while rowing at a high rate—the closer they are to rowing on another plane, the plane on which champions row. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Three times weekly she took an aerobics class, checking her watch throughout to be sure her heart rate had exceeded one hundred and twenty beats per minute. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Injury rates were, by all accounts, far higher in the 1920s and 1930s; between 1935 and 1939 alone, nineteen riders were killed in racing accidents. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The North Carolina government—half of which crowded into Garrison’s dining room that night—purchased existing slaves from farmers at favorable rates, just as Great Britain had done when it abolished slavery decades ago. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “I don’t understand why they fill our television with second- rate Mexican shows and ignore all the potential our people have,” she muttered. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z It was horribly dangerous, but at any rate there was no telescreen in the room, a point he had made sure of as soon as he came in. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z My pulse was racing like Mrs. B’s heart rate when I was testing my mood-music playlist. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z I made Bryce twenty-two years old and gave him a brand-new Social Security number, an immaculate credit rating, and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Moreover, its size and shape would depend only on its mass and rate of rotation, and not on the nature of the body that had collapsed to form it. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The .50 caliber started spitting, and the shells came out at an enormous rate. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Taryn’s mom would keep her distracted for at least ten minutes, so Ivy had some time to get her heart rate back to normal. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Sandbags, lamps, and portable radios are rationed out too. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z By the time he had recovered, he was on the ground and jouncing along at a great rate. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z He remembered something about the rate supposing to be seventy-two, so Derek was low, but it was still working all right. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z Juvenile arrest rates began to fall in 1994, and they have continued to fall ever since. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “I guess I’m good for the ratings,” I reply. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The schools with good test scores and high graduation rates would be rabidly oversubscribed, making it impossible to satisfy every student’s request. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Wade was hitting its late teen years—the years during which young men enter their criminal prime—the rate of crime began to fall. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “At any rate, let me check further. Perhaps I left it in the teacher’s lounge.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z For illustration, suppose Myrtle has met six men so far and that she rates them as follows: 3 5 16 2 4. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The weavers at the Massachusetts Corporation had all refused the agent’s demand that they each tend four looms and take a piece rate reduction as well. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z His competitors soon had their own rolling machines—although Duke had worked out a special arrangement with the machine's makers guaranteeing him a rate 25 percent under the best price charged any other manufacturer. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Once the bugs were worked out of the Bonsack machines, Duke churned cigarettes out of his factories at an unprecedented rate—823 million in 1889—and at a price his competition couldn’t match. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z At this rate I would definitely make my goal by the end of the month. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z “Women especially. That must have been the case with your wife. She had courage for every other thing but that. She could not face pain. Well, she was spared that at any rate.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z In arguing that Indians died at anomalously high rates from European diseases, are researchers claiming that they were somehow uniquely vulnerable? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The mugs settled, and my pulse rate stopped heading toward a heart attack. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Pilot and navigator error, mechanical failure, and bad luck were killing trainees at a stunning rate. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z At current rates of change, within the next decade the few remaining bands of hunter-gatherers will abandon their ways, disintegrate, or die out, thereby ending our millions of years of commitment to the hunter-gatherer lifestyle. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But then a few years later, rates of execution and death sentencing were once again decreasing. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The slow rate indicated that the black hole’s gravitational pull was growing stronger. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z The lion apparently did not think its prey worth a wetting; at any rate it made no attempt to take the water in pursuit. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z The survival rates depended on what was amputated. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z At any rate, there was no money to spare for Fathers visit back home. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Let’s have a drink at any rate,’ said Pippin. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z All the while, in their quest for clicks and ratings, news outlets—particularly the more conservative ones—were gleefully pumping oxygen into his groundless claims. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z In recognition of this, Swift and his fellow meatpacking company owners kept them on as part of the expanded work force and even paid them at a higher rate than the unskilled men. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z But the meter is running at the rate of $59 a day for my digs at the 6, which are resembling a Ballard creation more every day. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The rate fell to 18 percent for those living in ghetto areas. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z One way was by lending money to Christians, often at a high rate of interest. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z Its genes would be telling it to grow at a leisurely rate, sufficient only to bring it to maturity in five months. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll bring you a bucket of hot water. Winter rate’s two dollars.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It curved away on their left northward, back towards the hills, and so barred their road in that direction, at any rate while darkness lasted. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The taller the building, the more people you place on top of one another, the higher the crime rate. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z In any case, with his reputation as a no-nonsense leader as well as the grueling work, Rondon had to pay his men six to seven times more than the going rate for hired workers. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z At any rate, he needed to remind them who was in charge. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Those disparate rates constitute history’s broadest pattern and my book’s subject. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “At a low, low interest rate of six percent a month. That would make your monthly payment, after a reasonable down—” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Today violent crime rates are at historically low levels, yet incarceration rates continue to climb. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Pick the Hits rated every song on the album, with two scoring average ratings and eight scoring below average. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z At any rate he scored a bed-cover out of it; for when we returned a few hours later to look for it, it was no longer to be found. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z He decided that he himself, at any rate, would be perfectly candid and plain. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z For this reason it can be used as a standard candle to measure the expansion rate of the universe. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He doesn’t rate: some defect, lack of connections. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z “It sounds like you’re edging closer and closer to finishing this, at any rate.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Historical records show that frontier populations can increase at astonishing rates; in the early nineteenth century, the annual U.S. birthrate climbed as high as 5 percent. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It also claimed that suffrage would be harmful to children, because it would increase the likelihood of “discord” in marriages, increasing the “already alarming” rate of divorce in the country. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z At his doctor’s suggestion, Miele enrolled in a three- month monitored exercise program for heart disease patients, called cardiac rehab, which has been shown to reduce the mortality rate among heart patients by 20 percent. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “This is war. Even our churches are making the sacrifice, delivering their bells to be recast as cannon. Surely you do not rate your home above the houses of God?” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z And no trying to sneak in an R rating after I’m asleep. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z He stood watching life proceed at an exaggerated rate outside the shimmering corona. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z He, at any rate, was the one who loved her enough to touch her, envelop her, give something of himself to her. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z But a civilization with a low population growth rate will take a long time to colonize many worlds, even if the strictures on rapid population growth are eased after reaching some lush Eden. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As the craft flew overhead, it telemetered a torrent of data to the closest tracking station, everything from its speed and altitude to its fuel level and the astronaut’s heart rate. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I was encouraged by the fact that nationwide the rate of mass incarceration had finally slowed. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z By the end of 2009, Alabama had the nation’s highest execution rate per capita. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The murder rate had not fallen under three hundred in years. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Since Iceland’s interest rate at that time was higher than Switzerland’s, it’s curious why Bobby didn’t want the transfer. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He showed that, provided a stationary rotating black hole had an axis of symmetry, like a spinning top, its size and shape would depend only on its mass and rate of rotation. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The stroke rate jumped to thirty-six, then thirty-seven. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Application at the recommended rates leaves tremendous amounts of these chemicals on the lawn. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But, of course, oarsmen are human and no crew can maintain both powerful strokes and a very high rate indefinitely. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z On the stage Luba Luft sang, and he found himself surprised at the quality of her voice; it rated with that of the best, even that of notables in his collection of historic tapes. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The Spaniards arrived and then Indians died—in huge numbers, at incredible rates. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z At any rate she was feeling happy, and she bore no grudge against her captor. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Things were so hectic that Adam had dropped half his course load and was going to college part-time, and if things kept up at this rate, he was thinking of dropping out altogether. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z These studies have led some policing experts to conclude that racial profiling is actually “worse” in white communities, because the racial disparities in stop and search rates are much greater there. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z With my medical sensors still attached to my chest, I could find out from the people in Houston what my heart rate was. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The virus was designed to slowly weaken in infection rate as it spreads from host to host. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z What else accounted for the high divorce rates among Nigerians in America and the low rates among Nigerians in Nigeria? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z These tough ratings sat up in bed darning their socks, and insisted on hand-washing their own smalls, which they dried on washing lines improvised from string, suspended along the radiators. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z It’s impossible to imagine my father, who in my experience was aroused mainly by the lowering of interest rates, suffering the acute, adolescent passions of the flesh. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z In many parts of the world the fatality rate from parathion is startling: 100 fatal cases in India and 67 in Syria in 1958, and an average of 336 deaths per year in Japan. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The unemployment rate for young black men post-apartheid shot up, sometimes as high as 50 percent. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Such, at any rate, was the idea of battle in Lot’s command. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z But the typical black student’s school has a far higher rate of troublesome indicators, such as gang problems, nonstudents loitering in front of the school, and lack of PTA funding. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Over the previous three decades, rates of childhood obesity had tripled. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z "The heart of a mouse," she said, "and that means your heart, is beating at the rate of five hundred times a minute! Isn't that amazing?" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z The guide notes that agency ratings and funding are tied to whether they are “adopting and implementing effective applicant screening,” a clear signal that agencies may be penalized for not cleaning house. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Using their previously calculated rate of genetic change as a standard, they estimated when the original group had migrated to the Americas: 22,414 to 29,545 years ago. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Scientists discovered in the 1960s that the rate of CH formation and intake varied more than Libby had thought. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It had been altogether too easy; Lee must have wanted him where he was, or at any rate where he had been headed before he called a halt and ordered a pull-back. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z At this rate, I’d never be able to add to my flock. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z In the Washington boat, Don Hume was matching Berken- kamp’s stroke rate but making no progress in pulling even with him. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z To keep the world’s economies and trade running smoothly, it oversaw international exchange rates and payment systems. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The leaders had slowed just a bit, and that had narrowed the gap, but if Moch had raised the rate at all, it was imperceptible. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The colleges whose pennants are up—Old Dominion University and others that seem in the realm of the possible—have far lower graduation rates. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z So as the black hole loses mass, its temperature and rate of emission increase, so it loses mass more quickly. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The seismology section had a million probes down here, with a ninety-nine point eight success rate at predicting the magma flares. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z They pour at just the right rate—too quickly and the molds will explode; too slowly and the steel will harden. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I’m breathing deeply, trying to slow my heart rate, to quell the panic rising in my chest. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z When Maurice’s slow answer emerged as no, he wouldn’t mind, my pulse rate returned to normal. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z They might create a dozen different versions of the same ad and run them simultaneously in a dozen different cities and compare the response rates to each. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The fire has already spread to the trees at an alarming rate. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z It is thus quite possible that he learned of this plant in Bree, where now, at any rate, it grows well on the south slopes of the hill. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “Cut it off. It would be a good thing if you did. I should not have to keep on tutoring, at any rate.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Shasta at any rate was too frightened to run. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z Chess Federation rating calculated after the event was astronomically high—2375—confirming his status as a master and ranking him number twenty-five in the nation. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It is hard to get used to eating only at mealtimes and having my food rationed again. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z But he drank a lot at any rate. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z They call out a chorus of numbers that are as familiar to me now as my own name: BP, pulse ox, respiratory rate. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It is evidently considered beautifying in that region, or one of the places he’s lived at any rate. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Today I been selling ammo at about two hundred times the normal rate 1 usually sell it.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “At any rate I do wash my face,” said Polly, “which is what you need to do; especially after—” and then she stopped. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z Somehow that represents a more compelling recommendation than the opinion of an expert whose job it is to rate restaurants. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z At this rate, I’ll have burned through the rest of the $1,200 I’ve allotted for my life in Minneapolis in less than a week. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll play some songs. Then tell me your mood and let me take your resting heart rate.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z The profile listed my indent account balance, pay grade, blood type, current performance review rating—every scrap of data the company had on me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z At this rate, they would reach the Forgotten Chapel in moments. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Shaker took college seriously: the district had a ninety-nine percent graduation rate and virtually all the kids went on to college of some kind. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “At any rate, it remains unlikely that the Ministry will be mine before next Saturday. If we cannot touch the boy at his destination, then it must be done while he travels.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z With both boats rowing at the same rate, Hume’s stroke made all the difference. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I can measure the rate of water rising over time. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z As they approached Government Island and the halfway mark, California slowly increased its rate and stretched its lead out to a full length. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The rate surged to thirty-nine and then immediately to forty. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Cory catalogued each of them and rated the likelihood of each one being a fossil. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Even among all those areas where food production did spread in the prehistoric era, the rates and dates of spread varied considerably. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z At any rate, they must have been very crowded with three grown men in the back of the Lysander. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z I read about teenage driving, teenage runaways, and teenage dropout rates. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Each bottle could be placed on one of fifteen racks, each rack, though you couldn’t see it, was a conveyor traveling at the rate of thirty-three and a third centimetres an hour. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z As the rate dropped, the Husky Clipper continued to hold its position just off of California’s stern. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “At any rate, I’m knackered,” Henry is saying now. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z At that rate, they could have one more meal before they ran out of money, or maybe two more. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z “You want in? You can rate the boys.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Their response pretty much across-the-board was to accelerate their rate of arrival, and to spread out as much as was humanly possible. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Today, Peru boasts the highest cure rate for MDR in the world. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z That without us, rates of child abuse would suddenly soar. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z At any rate, that’s how I thought of it, since I still didn’t know where our hiding place was. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z This time around, the observers’ ratings predicted with better than 80 percent accuracy which marriages were going to make it. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z My trees grow at an advanced rate for anywhere from two to five years before tapering off to normal, and they are a wild success. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The week of Christmas produces a 2 percent drop in payment rates— again, a 15 percent increase in theft, an effect on the same magnitude, in reverse, as that of 9/11. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Holmes’s contribution was to measure the decay rate of uranium into lead to calculate the age of rocks, and thus–he hoped–of the Earth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z At the rate she was going, her sky was going to be filled with them before she was through. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The rate of loss is now well below 1 per cent a year. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “It was the product you were selling. And what you produced was not love. It was fake love. You defrauded us. It’s clear. Your heart rates no longer rise when you see each other.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He's three years older than me but only a little bit taller, and at the rate he was going school-wise, come this time next year, I'd be almost caught up with him. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z A slow heart rate tells our brain that something sad is happening. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Before he was to play his first game, Bobby was rated at 2298, making him among the top ten active players in the country. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z At any rate I didn’t miss a beat—this is how I operate. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Nancy had been reasonable—• at any rate, she had not argued—and now, before saying good night, Mr. Clutter secured from her a promise to begin a gradual breaking off with Bobby. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Muller’s experiments demonstrated that heredity could be manipulated quite easily: the mutation rate was itself quite mutable. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z More connections, faster connections, more efficient connections—Neal and others in the booming tech industry serving a seemingly insatiable drive to communicate with one another and trade at ever-increasing rates. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Emily Brent thought to herself: "I shall begetting a free holiday at any rate." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z So, through multiple calls, I arrive at a list of eleven motels in the Twin Cities area, all of them of the non-brand- name variety, offering weekly rates. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z His heart rate sped up, a nervousness coursing through him, but when he saw how excitedly Javier was greeted, he figured that there wasn’t a need for him to worry. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “I will try that soon at this rate.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z My science book says that hair grows at a rate of one centimeter per month. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The extra gravitational attraction of such a large number of black holes could explain why our galaxy rotates at the rate it does: the mass of the visible stars is insufficient to account for this. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Although African Americans do not engage in drug crime at significantly higher rates than whites, black men do have much higher rates of violent crime, and violent crime is concentrated in ghetto communities. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “What!” said Mrs. Weston, “have not you finished it yet? you would not earn a very good livelihood as a working silversmith at this rate.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z The rate of spread of key developments is especially well understood for Europe, thanks to the many archaeologists at work there. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The middle class fell into poverty, and people became so desperate that the crime rate went up. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Consider, too, the Dobynsesque procedure for recovering original population numbers: applying an assumed death rate, usually 95 percent, to the observed population nadir. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The motels and the gas pumps are often empty or closed: gas is rationed, so people don’t travel much unless they have to. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z To the Soviet Union, which had been left out of the Munich Agreement, the rate at which Germany was gobbling up European territory was seriously alarming. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z If those two boats have the exact same power per stroke but one has a higher stroke rate, the one with the higher rate will pull ahead. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Their rates of change—their fluxions—are denoted by and x respectively. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z And, at any rate, one of the few rules the Executives seemed willing to admit to was that students were not allowed in one another’s rooms. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Yet their rates of heart disease and obesity are lower than the health-crazy Americans’. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z So if two boats carrying the same weight have the exact same stroke rate, the one producing more power per stroke will pull ahead. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z At any rate, he waited till the hiccupping aftermath of his tears had subsided a little. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Where water is entering a container at a certain rate and leaving at a different rate and you need to figure out when it'll be empty? The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1973, it must have been—at any rate, it was at about the time when he and Katharine had parted. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I’m not talking here about racial differences in overall crime rates. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Homicide fell at a greater rate during the 1990s than any other sort of crime, and a number of reliable studies have shown virtually no link between the economy and violent crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z For journalists bred to the metabolic rate of a daily newspaper, this is tortuous work. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “No. I think the court has custody. For the moment, at any rate. The mother is a remarkably beautiful woman, but not one in whom, shall we say, the flame of motherhood burns very brightly.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z This possible growth depends on a number of factors we cannot control, including crime rates and sentencing patterns in various jurisdictions and acceptance of privatization. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In Johannesburg, more than half of employees stayed home and in Port Elizabeth the rate was even higher. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Writing, at any rate, was a skill I didn’t regard highly. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z At any rate, something forced his hand, and his feelings came out into the open. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Already they were getting used to much walking on short commons — shorter at any rate than what in the Shire they would have thought barely enough to keep them on their legs. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z It is only about 24 hours’ sail from the Dardanelles to here, at the rate the Czarina Catherine has come from London. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z My heart rate soared as I stood there fumbling with the key ring while more and more officers shouted at me to hurry up. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Sam would go with him — and at any rate they would get rid of Gollum. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z In September the average number of deaths per day began to rise at an alarming rate, and relatives and neighbors hurried anyone they suspected of having yellow fever off to Bush Hill. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z But he could not rate her activity level. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z At one point, Terman had his fieldworkers go and visit everyone from the A and C groups and rate their personalities and manner. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z As a former educator, Garfield decried the nation's high rate of illiteracy, particularly in the South, revealed by questions in the 1880 census asking if a person could read and write. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z At the rate they were going, there was no way I could jump in quick enough. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z It was therefore more than clear that spraying at the rate of a pound of DDT to the acre posed a serious threat to the fishes in forest streams. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Mounted troops were able to move at rates never encountered in Tawantinsuyu. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Still, it was hard to find fault with Mazoe, and the crime rate was certainly low. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z But immediately after September 11 of that year, the rate spiked a full 2 percent and hasn’t slipped much since. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z At any rate, turkeys went into a wild-eyed, head-banging panic when a red-tailed hawk went over. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “How about fair wages to clean up the village? It’d help out a few of us, at any rate.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z The housing shortage, the schools crisis, unemployment and the crime rate still remain. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This states that the body will accelerate, or change its speed, at a rate that is proportional to the force. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Unseasonably pleasant weather inspires people to pay at a higher rate. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z His interest was in interest rates, and he hadn’t given military economics much thought. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z At any rate, she gently pried my grandmother from the rocker and helped her upstairs for her afternoon nap. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z These “Kerr” black holes rotate at a constant rate, their size and shape depending only on their mass and rate of rotation. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Because once a kid had been evaluated, Dell could complete the district's form in a flash, giving everyone in a specific category the same rating. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z "Watch what you say, or you may never leave—not standing up at any rate." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Thomas’s heart rate quickened—he was now alone with a guy who’d had a bad temper before getting attacked by a Griever and going through the Changing. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Party members were supposed not to swear, and Winston himself very seldom did swear, aloud, at any rate. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Few doctors kept accurate records on recovery rates during the yellow fever plague. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Her only roll was already half-gone, and she rationed it strictly now, counting the sheets. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Understand now, she was barely rated in the top twenty; her hair was uncombed, unclean; her age was just seventeen, so there was still, in occasional places, the remains of baby fat. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Even more pertinent to my condition, the Twin Cities region “is posting one of the lowest vacancy rates in the nation— possibly the lowest.” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Such black holes would have a much higher temperature and would be emitting radiation at a much greater rate. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The numbers were staggering and clearly defied a natural death rate. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z People of all races use and sell illegal drugs at remarkably similar rates. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Meat and cheese are scarce, they are rationed. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z If the separation in rating points had been minimal, Bobby’s opinion of Collins might not have been so deprecatory. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z By choice I do not consult the movie ratings of the Legion of Decency, and my reading is not curtailed by the Index. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z However, when I did the calculation, I found, to my surprise and annoyance, that even non-rotating black holes should apparently create and emit particles at a steady rate. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Moch told Hume to ease the stroke rate back up to thirty-eight. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The number of inmates has tripled in the last twenty-five years, and rates of incarceration keep climbing. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Luxa was rising up along the web spinning and twisting at a dizzying rate. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The swells grew in size at a regular rate, and the wind began to increase but started slowly and worked up at a steady, growing pace. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “How many tubes did they have hooked up to him? What was the name of the stuff they were putting into him? Were they giving him blood? What was his heart rate?” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z Ziemer emphasized that this alarming death rate hadn’t been skewed upward by mountaineering accidents; the victims had been “just ordinary trekkers who never ventured beyond the established trails.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Every little bit helped, but we both knew I'd never go back to school at this rate. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z At this rate, we might not reach the road until dark—and the thought of that fills me with such misery, I have to fight it with fury. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Even at this rate, my dad thinks I might die. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z White corpuscles are formed in the lymph glands and in some of the marrow cells at a variable, but still prodigious, rate. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z At any rate, it was something of the sort. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Even with conservative assumptions about the rate of paleo-Indian expansion, the destructive front would reach the Gulf of Mexico in three to five centuries. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z At this rate, she will never make the north coast by nightfall. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z After a while Matt switched to reading Tam Lin’s present.The bodyguard was fond of nature books, although he read them at a painfully slow rate. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In this they are quite unlike testimonies, which degrade as they pass from ear to ear in an endless game of Chinese whispers; eighteenth-century probability theorists actually devised formulae for calculating this rate of degradation. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z One of the chairs was occupied by a woman frantically pressing buttons as the Berg shot forward, trees disappearing below them at an increasing rate. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z College graduates have received steady pay increases over the past two decades, while the pay of everyone else has risen little more than the rate of inflation. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z This expansion is said to be “inflationary,” meaning that the universe at one time expanded at an increasing rate rather than the decreasing rate that it does today. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z At any rate, since she was still here, there was nothing they could do but hope that she wouldn’t ruin everything. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Like other things now, thought must be rationed. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z On campuses that enroll poorer students, graduation rates are often low. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z They have lower rates of diet-related illness such as heart disease. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Hundreds of music listeners end up voting on particular songs, and over the years the rating systems have become extraordinarily sophisticated. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z If the mutation rate is too high, we lose the inheritance of four billion years of painstaking evolution. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Well, I am glad he has dropped the Baggins at any rate. But it is evidently high time that the family dealt with him and put him in his place.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z To answer this question we need to know the present rate of expansion of the universe and its present average density. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “But I’ve said enough! At any rate, I’ll let you work out who gets the gorgon’s blood. I suppose that newcomer Percy could use it too, with his memory problem.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z My heart rate calmed down, and I opened my eyes slowly. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z They were fuzzy, droll little creatures who grew at a tremendous rate. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z At any rate when suppertime neared, she said to him, “Do you want to set the table or get Mr. Randolph?” and he answered with hardly a stutter, “Get Mr. Randolph.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z Not only was the conversation flowing more freely and loudly, we found ourselves serving out wine at a conspicuously increased rate. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z The women pilots soon learned to keep this information to themselves, and their accident rate was less than that of their male counterparts. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Charlotte’s babies were disappearing at a great rate. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z It would therefore seem likely that our homicide rate is so high in part because guns are so easily available. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “At any rate within two months,” said Nathan, “allowing for everything.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z They point to violent crime rates in the African American community as a justification for the staggering number of black men who find themselves behind bars. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “They rationed it by day. Nothing at night.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z After about a minute, Moch told Don Hume to drop the rate. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z For a fistful of pickups tailored extra- specially for this nightmarish scenario, try Cyranofeed, available at rates as low as— She was like, “I’m sorry if I embarrassed you at Marty’s.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Only a minority of women live to age eighty-five, and incidence rates are changing and are much higher for older women. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The cockles of Billy’s heart, at any rate, were glowing coals. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The error rate was higher both when using a handheld and handsfree phone. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I wondered if Olympus had gone to a commercial break, or if our ratings had been any good. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Ten years later, Portugal reported that rates of drug abuse and addiction had plummeted, and drug-related crime was on the decline as well. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z At any rate, hand in hand, they moved into the shadows of the Fire Swamp. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “The new tech is growing at exponential rates and we’re asking the court to take that into account.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “They keep arriving at this rate, oh, man—no contest!” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z On the Tuesday nights when the show was broadcast, crime rates fell, and attendance at movie theaters and restaurants dropped. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Residents there were stopped at a rate thirteen times the city average. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z At any rate nothing was moving on it now. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “You’re good, kid. At this rate, who needs that other Duke?” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Invariably, the Contestants rate the Questioners as being a lot smarter than they themselves are. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Screwy as it seemed, maybe this was a way to make some money—or, at any rate, a few bucks. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, with juvenile incarceration rates sinking, only half of the twelve thirty-bed units were open, and each of those was only half full. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Few would guess that our prison population leaped from approximately 350,000 to 2.3 million in such a short period of time due to changes in laws and policies, not changes in crime rates. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The dropout rate in primary school was 98 percent. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Government spending on nuclear weapons research was running about $ 150 million a year, Bradbury estimated, about three times its rate prior to the establishment of Livermore. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z At the rate they were going, only six years, they figured. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z A much better word, at any rate, than sturdy. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The high rate of turnover had the corollary benefit of keeping to a minimum the number of individuals who understood the building’s secrets. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “We’ll be able to move out of Rose’s house by May at this rate,” Mama told Ophie a week later, on their ride home. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z He considered a rate between 80 and 90 percent “annoying but tolerable.” Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “Food is rationed. She said the guards oversee the farm and the workers,” said Mother. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The guys continued to argue over the numbers: They were rating the first-year girls by their head shots in the student handbook. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z I take deep breaths, and my vision begins to clear, my heart rate returning to normal. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z At such a rate, we will reach it in ten billion years, and extragalactic astronomy will then be a great deal easier. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The United States still had many military facilities in Europe; when I earned ratings of fluent in German, Polish, and Russian, I expected to be stationed in Germany or Poland. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z A similar death rate in the United States would claim about twelve million lives. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I suppose von Linden would be sacked if his success rate were that dismal. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z "Yes, if the rate of tarnishing doesn't increase." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z During the gravitational collapse of a star to form a black hole, the movements would be much more rapid, so the rate at which energy is carried away would be much higher. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But there’s another noteworthy shift in these lists: a very quick rate of turnover. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Conviction rates declined during the 1960s, and criminals who were convicted served shorter sentences. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “And it looks like it’s good for your ratings, too,” I say, shifting the topic. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Music can affect our heartbeat, blood pressure, and pulse rate, and reduce stress, anxiety and even depression. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z At this rate, the snow will fall before I hear what happened. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Kids were being diagnosed with high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes at record rates. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “Do ye think that Lancelot willna come to rescue her? He is no coward, at any rate.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z At this rate, the march would be over and done by the time he reached the city limits. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z By measuring his blood pressure, oxygen levels, and heart and breathing rates, doctors would get valuable information about the extent of his wound. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Clearly, the mysterious killing force was still in Philadelphia, still working its way into households despite every precaution, still infecting at an alarming rate. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z They are rated as among the most dangerous materials of this type in use in the United States. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Another reason that the wealthiest will fare much better is that the tax cuts over the past decade have sharply lowered rates on income from investments. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z So I’ve been working hard and improving at a pretty good rate. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z But when I was six months’ pregnant, a lot of them started sending me these articles about how the birth-defect rate went zooming up after thirty-five. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Even as a kid I would hear stories about how much money they made, which seemed like astronomical hourly rates. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Some lied and said they’d gotten rich, or sent pictures of themselves as younger men; at any rate, wives came across the ocean. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Saliva’s filling my mouth at a ridiculous rate and I feel vomit at the back of my throat. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “Radios, maybe one per hundred thousand residents. No telephones. Newspapers as scarce as hen’s teeth, and a literacy rate made to match. They get their evening news by listening to their neighbors’ drums.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Even with recent improvements, infant mortality rates continue to be an embarrassment for a nation that spends more on health care than any other country in the world. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z However the Earth’s gravity has managed to nudge Venus into this Earth- locked rotation rate, it cannot have happened rapidly. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as foragers exhibited a wide array of religions and social structures, so, too, did they probably demonstrate a variety of violence rates. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The only problem with the plan was that gasoline was being rationed. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z “Time flows at a different rate in the Third World,” Darkness said. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z “Whoa!” he says, quickly shifting back and putting a hand over his chest to try and slow his breathing and heart rate down. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z The rate of decline is known precisely; every 5,730 years, half of the C14 atoms in nonliving substances become regular carbon atoms. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He was holding the Lombard back and shouting, “You offer a usurious rate! Forty percent! Forty! My uncle offered thirty. Thirty is reasonable! Thirty is standard! But thirty is undercutting now?” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Go up 1 percent to a 96 percent death rate and the figure jumps to 12.5 million—creating more than two million people arithmetically from a tiny increase in mortality rates. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z This b what the chronicles say, at any rate. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “Here they come already, unless I’m much mistaken. Straight down the open track, too! Not bothered about keeping hidden, are they? What a rate they’re going!” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z But, anyway, the clothes kept us from getting sunburned, and they did help to decrease the rate at which we were perspiring. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She was a seamstress on Second Avenue and made Klondike coats at piece rate. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He continued to practice his breathing technique, and his heart rate finally started to subside from the painful thumping of the last few minutes. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z At anything like our present rate of technical progress, an advanced civilization millions of years old is as much beyond us as we are beyond a bush baby or a macaque. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z From a high in 1990, the crime rate went into precipitous decline. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The other eleven players were considered some of the finest and highest rated in the United States, and the club members were excited by the event. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Lydia’s heart rate slowed a bit when she saw him breathe. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z She is sixty-seven and has been on the job longer than anyone—two years—enough to rate her a mention in the newsletter published by corporate headquarters. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z We, or at any rate I, had built such elaborate fantasies about him and the illusory mother that seeing him in the flesh shredded my inventions like a hard yank on a paper chain. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I was hired by a florid-faced white man at the rate of fifty cents for nine holes. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z At any rate, it made her shift uncomfortably and push at her bangs until she remembered two of Trotter’s trusty sentences for emergency use and offered both of them. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z At the Hiroshima death rate of some hundred thousand people killed per equivalent thirteen-kiloton weapon, this would be enough to kill a hundred billion people. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z While the rate declined in the 1990s as the shadows cast by the Vietnam War began to recede, it has picked up again as a result of the military conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The state of Maryland had one of the highest graduation rates in the nation. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z ‘Sounds too easy at any rate in the telling. If that path is still there, it’ll be guarded too. Wasn’t it guarded, Gollum?’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He evidently did not know that there was a leaden coffin, or, at any rate, had not thought of it. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z By comparing tooth variation in Asian populations, Turner estimated the approximate rate at which the secondary characteristics in teeth evolved. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z At this rate there was no way we’d be able to outrun it. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “On a scale of one to ten,” I said to Fig, “rate your current stress level.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z At this rate hers would be one of the last, if not the last, door to be unjammed. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z At any rate, we seemed to stop at every promising clump of trees. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Ever so slowly, Washington began to claw its way back, inch by inch, still keeping the rate low but starting to gain on sheer power. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “At,” repeated Mr. Jaggers, still looking at the ceiling, “the—rate—of?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Despite America's preeminent status among developed nations, we have always struggled with high rates of infant mortality—much higher than in most developed countries. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z At this rate it'll take me weeks to get all the soil in. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z These students performed substantially better than they did in their old academic settings and graduated at a much higher rate than their past performance would have predicted. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The education of any civilized gentleman in those days used to go through three stages, page, squire, knight, and at any rate the Wart had been through the first two of these. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d had good experiences with almost all of them, though in his business there was an above-average rate of attrition and turnover. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z At any rate, Leo couldn’t miss the fact that the guy at the pond was one super good-looking dude. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Their spread was accomplished by collecting beetles from the original colonies and redistributing them at the rate of millions a year. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Her office had one of the lowest direct-file rates in the state. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z After I had received my minimum-security custody rating from my caseworker, Mr. Bow offered to take me out on an evening furlough to a "special motel where you can get your rocks off." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z He wouldn’t have needed an F. Lee Bailey to get him off, at any rate. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Sure enough, when Levanthal redid the experiment, one small change was sufficient to tip the vaccination rate up to 28 percent. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And every time he defeated a player with a higher rating, his own rating rose. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z In addition, at the end of every “date,” they rate the person they’ve just met, based on the same categories. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z For she never grasped—not at any rate with her mind—what, with such incandescence, he tried to tell her on these Saturday afternoons. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z I didn’t, and at the rate I was going, it didn’t look like I ever would. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “She doesn’t intend to give us a poor table, at any rate,” the doctor said, peering into the warming oven. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z “In my experience, the nurse would certainly rate as attractive.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “The woman has never been very reasonable, at any rate,” he said, in English, shaking his head. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Every time I hear footsteps on the steps, my heart rate goes up. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z And, at any rate, the price of a share of General Electric didn’t mean a thing to the vast majority of Americans, who owned no stock at all. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “Well, at any rate it’s not a pig, and you don’t have to buy it. If you guess what it is, then you may have it for your dinner.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The increase is by no means confined to the United States; in all countries the recorded deaths from leukemia at all ages are rising at a rate of 4 to 5 per cent a year. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “I just need you to listen to some songs, tell me your mood, and let me take your resting heart rate.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z As an example, let’s take the famous equation we all learned in high school: rate times time equals distance. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Black men, they say, have much higher rates of violent crime; that’s why so many of them are locked up. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z At any rate, White Deer outdid himself that day. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z When she reached 18, it was a commercial license; two years later, she also had a flight instructor rating and an instrument rating. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z ‘But the Sun at any rate must peep in sometimes,’ said Merry. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z You could rent by the minute, or pay a flat hourly rate. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “There are legends, though,” said Harry, and as his heart rate quickened, the pain in his scar became more intense; he was sure that Voldemort had decided to put his idea into action. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z ‘Yes,’ said Frodo, ‘it was Strider that saved us. Yet I was afraid of him at first. Sam never quite trusted him, I think, not at any rate until we met Glorfindel.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The rate of incarceration in 1972 was at a level so low that it no longer seems in the realm of possibility, but for moratorium supporters, that magnitude of imprisonment was egregiously high. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “The baboon will press the lever at a very steady rate. ‘Is the food there yet, is the food there yet?’ A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z At any rate, this is a rule that modern grammarians have long tried to get us out from under. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z And once hospitalized, they got fewer pain medications, and had higher mortality rates. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The trio developed what they called a Win Score, which was a rating system based on combining points and assists and rebounds and turnovers and shooting percentages in a complicated equation. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “Only a human wouldn’t be. Your species is clogging up the world so fast. . . ah, never mind. It’s useless to lecture a human. At the rate things are going, I’ll never find Pan.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z He hunched forward and bellowed for Hume to take the stroke rate up. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The rise of Hush Puppies and the fall of New York’s crime rate are textbook examples of epidemics in action. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite good performance reviews, a P-l rating was out of his reach, because the grade required a bachelor’s degree. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Alabama's death-sentencing rate had also dropped from the late 1990s, but it was still the highest in the country. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z But that changed when the federal government ordered the hospitals to be desegregated: within just seven years, the black infant mortality rate had been cut in half. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z It’s rather interesting; I had based our estimated taxes on a historical rate of return of approximately 10% annual yield. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “At any rate, you get your parts, right?” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Now, Nico was able to control his heart rate, along with his desire to knee his father in the groin and run away. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z My heart rate practically triples at just the thought of it. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Running the tunnels during the war presented yet another logistical challenge, as the local power company rationed electricity. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z They had not raised their stroke rate a bit. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z However, when the stock market slowed down, we actually had a negative rate of... Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He slowed his digging rate, poking the soft clay gently until his fingers breached the tunnel wall. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The survival rate is around 90 percent for those who discover it early. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The increasing rate of executions in Alabama went against the national trend. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “In the beginning, their heart rate is 175. They can’t see straight. Then the second or third time, it’s 120, and then it’s 110, and they can function.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z If we bring it close to the uranium ore, which is emitting helium nuclei in a spontaneous nuclear decay, the count rate, the number of clicks per minute, increases dramatically. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was based on the realization that all living things have within them an isotope of carbon called carbon-14, which begins to decay at a measurable rate the instant they die. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z They put an ice pack on my swollen, bruised arm, take my blood pressure and heart rate, and examine my leg. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z “The concept of a safe rate of radiation,” the study declared starkly, “simply does not make sense if one is concerned with genetic damage to future generations.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Many Rio residents left the city during the games and rented out their homes for more reasonable rates than the hotels charged. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The defection rate shot up to 34 percent among those Democrats who believed civil rights leaders were pushing “too fast.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He was able to judge the pack’s rate of travel by comparing positions from one day to the next. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z “It could help your approval ratings,” he says. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z At any rate, Mr. Jones’s then-boss, the Entebbe monkey trader, had arranged a deal with villagers in the Sese Islands to buy monkeys from them. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When the harvest time came, and many were wanted all at once, he let them out at any rate which he pleased and made a quantity of money. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The violent-crime rate among black youths, in fact, has dropped by 60 percent in the past two decades, and the homicide rate has dropped by 82 percent. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z And ‘at this rate’ or ‘doubled’ means multiplication. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z “Then one person, at any rate, will be completely freed from suspicion.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, nationwide, the rate of incarceration for African Americans convicted of drug offenses dwarfs the rate of whites. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z "It helps cosmologists to work out the rate at which galaxies are evolving. It’s one of those rare areas where the absence of evidence is evidence." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I’m at a 50 percent rate for smacking my head when I wake up. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Nina Chandler Murray, an eighty-five-year-old relative of the Poor family of Standard & Poor’s, the investment credit rating firm, is convinced that the world of the elite was more genteel in the old days. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z When the crime rate began falling in the early 1990s, it did so with such speed and suddenness that it surprised everyone. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z He came to consider a company “honest” if its payment rate was above 90 percent. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The reason for this is that our higher speed and higher altitude combined to make things go by the window at the same rate as if we had been going lower and slower. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Collins was one of the finest players in the United States, and for a number of years was rated in the top fifty; Nigro never reached anywhere near that achievement. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I wasn’t a naughty child but a first rate sinner, and I was going to catch it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z He came back and said his rates were the same, but wasn’t there another country that she called? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “At any rate, I certainly bear you no ill will, my girl. I appreciate the difficulty of your quest. Especially when you have troublemakers like Janus to deal with.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Cities receiving their drinking water from rivers had a higher death rate from cancer than did those whose water came from sources presumably less susceptible to pollution such as wells. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z ‘Yes . Reluctantly, Asclepius handed Piper the vial. ‘At any rate, the potion must be administered as soon as possible after death. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z That rate is much higher than observed for hunter-gatherer populations but is easily attained by farmers: Kenya’s population is now growing at 4.5 percent per year. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He cannot keep himself from smiling despite her serious tone and the nerves that are still keeping his heart from beating at a steady rate. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Further, the rate of progress is so rapid that what one learns at school or university is always a bit out of date. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They gathered a group of volunteers and hooked them up to monitors measuring their heart rate and body temperature—the physiological signals of such emotions as anger, sadness, and fear. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z It totally causes a spike in my heart rate, but since old habits apparently die very hard, despite the fact that my pillow is drenched in tears, I reply, “I’m fine!” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z The data transfer rate just isn’t good enough for the size of music files, even in compressed formats. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It was barreling straight toward them at a rate of three miles an hour. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z “Well, for a moment there, just before the end, his heart rate seemed abnormally fast.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Then Ambady cut the clips back to five seconds, and the ratings were the same. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The net effect is a coordinated mechanism for the regulation of rates of growth and occupations of territory. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z At any rate the arms, at a short distance from the trunk, were not wrinkled, but covered with a brown smooth skin. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He took in at a quick rate all that had happened. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z After a breakfast of rationed airline pretzels and four sips each from the rescued water bottles, the girls worked on their opening dance number. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Since the dismantling of apartheid in South Africa, the former number-one jailer, the United States has run neck and neck with Russia in the race to become the world leader in rates of imprisonment. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “For your information, I got it at the state fair last week, and the man said it had a ninety-nine percent success rate for helping people discover their Talents within one year.” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z In other words, at this rate of loss it would take about 300 years to eliminate Buffalo’s elms. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z His head came out, looked cautiously left and right, and he tore off down the street at a rate that was, all things considered, astounding. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “Sure was. I told Aibileen, at this rate, she needs to start charging.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Shackleton had estimated a rate of travel that would put him on the continent by the end of December, but by Christmas they still hadn’t passed the Antarctic Circle. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z “This country’s divorce rate is over 50 percent. Maybe OST could help.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z In a country with a 70-percent unemployment rate, the capital offered the most opportunities for work, often as servants for the wealthy. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The rate of paid admissions, though rising steadily, had to be increased still more, and soon. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Every time the calculations were properly done, the paradoxical answer emerged that the crystals could not grow at anywhere near the observed rates. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z From 1991 to 2001, the homicide rate among young black men—who were disproportionately represented among crack dealers—fell 48 percent, compared to 30 percent for older black men and older white men. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Between ninth and twelfth grades, their reading levels increased at a rate of 20 percent more than a cohort of similar students—as measured by academic ability and socioeconomics—who were not getting arts education. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z I asked if we could watch a van Damme movie and they said it was rated R, and also I’m just the treasurer. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z It shouldn’t have been an issue: the movie we went to see was rated G, totally fine, not scary at all. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z If the density is less than a certain critical value, determined by the rate of expansion, the gravitational attraction will be too weak to halt the expansion. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Wonka was saying, “No time for any more messing about! Well never get anywhere at the rate we’ve been going!” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z “At any rate, she is expected. The sister was most annoyed at me because they had planned to go off on their vacation today, although why she should be annoyed at me...” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z At any rate, modest men were careful not to over-bow themselves. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z These complaints made their way to Clarkson, though he was misled to believe that the black nurses were going about town demanding exorbitant rates for their work. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z We have now traced how food production arose in a few centers, and how it spread at unequal rates from there to other areas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Milo took the shiny pencil from his pocket and quickly calculated that, at the rate they were working, it would take each of them eight hundred and thirty-seven years to finish. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z Baltimore City had a 70 percent dropout rate at the time. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, as he had against California in April on Lake Washington, he called up the rate in the last few hundred feet, just for the show of it. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “It is difficult to give him a rating above a $5,000 plater,” wrote one journalist, using the synonym for claimer. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z At such a rate it seems impossible that it could ever cart away a mountain, but in fact given sufficient time that is precisely what would happen. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The whole story would scarcely rate a footnote in the history of science, except for one thing. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z “I’m not allowed to watch it, though, because it’s rated R.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z In the months leading up to Election Day, incumbent mayors routinely try to lock up the law-and-order vote by hiring more police—even when the crime rate is standing still. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z It is unfair to compare them with eagles, for many of these birds are noble creatures, while Sir Turquine at any rate was not noble. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The country was in the midst of a recession in the summer of 1980 and interest rates were close to 20 percent. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It can’t be controlled voluntarily, as can skin conductivity, respiration, and cardiac rate.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z And now they—or the woman, at any rate—made impossible propositions. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z He tried to time it, but couldn’t transpose the number of beats per minute measured on his digital watch into a pulse rate because he couldn’t think. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z Theoretically the stroke oar always rows at the rate and with the degree of power called for by the coxswain, but in the end it is the stroke who ultimately controls these things. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It also got the attention of Harvey Love, the coxswain in the varsity boat, who frantically called for a higher stroke rate. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z This was the same kind of fatality rate as was seen with the black plague during the Middle Ages. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z At any rate, it was Call the Captain liked, not me. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Hueper now gives DDT the definite rating of a “chemical carcinogen.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He wasn’t going to make it at this rate. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z But a body with a particular temperature must emit radiation at a certain rate. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Fig’s heart rate was normal, even on the low end, just like a relaxed cat’s. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Compared with Native Australians, New Guineans rate as culturally “advanced.” Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She offered to buy it for four thousand North Korean won, which was worth about four dollars at black-market exchange rates. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “The first installment appears this week. But the main thing is this: Will you get news for me on a space rate basis?” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The unemployment rate, technically speaking, was “lower” in South Africa during apartheid, which makes sense. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z At any rate, he paused, and then threw the meat into the cell before saying, “Very well. You come with me.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z And it was also here, unfortunately, that the Mud People were most in tune with magic, which resulted in a far higher People-sighting rate than you got anywhere else on the planet. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z “We just fired our contractor. At this rate our kid will already have moved out by the time the nursery’s ready.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It was a quote from a mine fire authority observing that if the rate of burning held steady, there was enough coal under Centralia to burn for a thousand years. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z At any rate, I gather that she wants you to have something to Fall Back On if for some reason the acting career doesn’t work out. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Within months of its debut in 1996, Blue’s Clues was trouncing Sesame Street in the ratings. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “At any rate, it makes sense. Why stay in Borrowdale? The conductor said an old man gave them the money to travel.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z When lice were collected and tested, it was found that 5 per cent DDT powder caused no increase in their natural mortality rate. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z We won’t even make it to the Industrial Revolution at this rate. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Some particles floated off slowly, others whizzed away at a great rate. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Jesse had assumed that phone rates worked the way they did in Idaho, that there was no charge for going online. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z McDonald’s says it’s okay if they have a 5 percent “error rate.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I would never have to eat rationed food, or obey curfews, or watch riots from my rooftop, or hide neighbors in water tanks to prevent them from being shot, as she and my father had. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Delta Mermaid replied that women simply had laws protecting them in America and the divorce rates would be just as high if those laws were in Nigeria. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He had a one hundred percent failure rate. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “Because your eyes dilated, your breathing rate increased a little bit, and you started to sweat.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z The going rate for black teachers was just half the wage paid white teachers. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “I’m thinking we each do six cups a day. I did the math and the amount that we have should actually be enough for about a week at that rate.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Most people imagine that the explosion in the U.S. prison population during the past twenty-five years reflects changes in crime rates. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Well, you know the rest, or at any rate I assume you’re familiar enough with the residents of the Annex to guess what they’d be talking about. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Farmer had already announced his amazing cure rate at the meeting. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Stephen stands on the bridge, dropping pieces of wood upstream, timing how long it takes them to come out the other side, calculating the rate of flow. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z And then she watched, her heart rate increasing, as her two kids got out of the dirty Ford and rushed toward the salon. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z It would take her forever to make it to the Protectorate at this rate. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z It was a wonderful place for me, home to a hundred bottles and bundles, satu- rated with a thousand smells. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “The company's going to loan them the money, almost no interest rate, twenty years to pay.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “At any rate, I told Mrs. Dudley that you would be here,” the doctor said, opening the door which led to the game room and on into the dining room. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Moch told Hume to edge the rate up, to see what would happen. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It is instructive to look at a chart of the crime rate in New York City from, say, the mid- 1960s to the late 1990s. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There is, of course, an official explanation for all of this: crime rates. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Approaching the line and already ahead by four lengths, George Morry finally called for a higher stroke rate. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The psychologist Nalini Ambady once gave students three ten-second videotapes of a teacher—with the sound turned off—and found they had no difficulty at all coming up with a rating of the teacher’s effectiveness. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z I hardly know whether I had slept or not after this musing; at any rate, I started wide awake on hearing a vague murmur, peculiar and lugubrious, which sounded, I thought, just above me. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Stunned, he bellowed at his crew to pick it up, and Cal’s rate climbed quickly to thirty-eight. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z As unobjectionable a date as any is 1000 B.C.—at any rate for the Iliad, the older of the two poems. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z But in the Bree-land, at any rate, the hobbits were decent and prosperous, and no more rustic than most of their distant relatives Inside. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Quantitative data should also be assembled to test my preliminary calculations suggesting differing rates of diffusion along the major axes of Eurasia, the Americas, and Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Or maybe, like, a customer service call to rate my satisfaction. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Although his heart rate was still too high, his temperature and breathing became normal. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Simultaneously, they seek to minimize their risk of starving: moderate but reliable returns are preferable to a fluctuating lifestyle with a high time-averaged rate of return but a substantial likelihood of starving to death. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In at least fifteen states, blacks are admitted to prison on drug charges at a rate from twenty to fifty-seven times greater than that of white men. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Keep lowering at a steady pace and the balloons keep shrinking at a constant rate, but they cannot go on shrinking forever. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z "I keep telling you, forget about him. I know where I cut him. It's a miracle he hasn't bled to death yet. At any rate, he's in no shape to raid us," says Cato. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z He judged it to be about the same rate as the faucet in his kitchen sink at home and that made him think of his mother. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z In 1954, black and white youth unemployment rates in America were equal, with blacks actually having a slightly higher rate of employment in the age group sixteen to nineteen. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It does not seem a very good rate, but then conditions were a bit adverse. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The tower of thick mist began to move toward him—or he was moving toward it, he couldn’t tell—increasing its speed at an alarming rate. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z At any rate, there’s no one else to hear her. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Together, these items weighed between 12 and 18 pounds, depending upon a man’s habits or rate of metabolism. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She's not a girl, but a woman, I suppose—she curves like a woman, at any rate—but that flawless smooth brown skin only reminds me that I'm getting on in years. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z It was impossible to keep up with the speed at which the ball flew, the rate at which their bodies raced around the field. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z After pouring the formulas in, we hang the bags, attach the tubing, and adjust the pump rate for how long we’ll be asleep. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z I would see clumsy, work-hardened, calloused hands scrawling and scratching signatures on the contract, agreeing to highway- robbery interest rates in the fine print that never was read. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Highest approval ratings of the entire First Family. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z She demanded of him what she gave—nothing—nothing, at any rate, with which she could be reproached. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Anthony borrowed money from friends and family, spent all of her savings, and raised subscription rates, but the newspaper still ended up $10,000 in debt, an amount equal to about $175,000 today. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z During the 1990s, the unemployment rate fell by 2 percentage points; nonviolent crime, meanwhile, fell by roughly 40 percent. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Those segments were then shown, with the sound turned off, to a group of randomly chosen people, who were asked to rate the facial expressions of each newscaster in each segment. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z At any rate this speech abashed and terrified him. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Coffee was rationed then and to waste it, inexcusable. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The effect of radiation on the mutation rate in flies had two immediate implications. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z At any rate, I felt invisible, creeping bent over toward that great gray clapboard house. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He had a notoriously high failure rate, which of course made him the anathema of Carter High School. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Studies show that people of all colors use and sell illegal drugs at remarkably similar rates. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “You and I are never going to get any sleep at this rate! And kindly line them up neatly in pairs as you take them off. Don’t just throw them over your shoulder.” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z How can a change in a handful of economic and social indices cause murder rates to fall by two-thirds in five years? The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z At the rate he was going, he would no longer be eligible for football once he received his grade for the six-week period. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z There was nothing dingy, at any rate, about a legal murder in the Age of Darkness. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Aspects of the performance were rated as either superior, excellent, good, or fair—they got mostly superiors—and the grades were supplemented with comments. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z This could then explain why the rate of expansion is still so close to the critical rate, without having to assume that the initial rate of expansion of the universe was very carefully chosen. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Many judges, prosecutors, and defense lawyers do a poor job of recognizing the special needs of the mentally disabled, which leads to wrongful convictions, lengthier prison terms, and high rates of recidivism. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Among "colored persons" in that age group, the rate was 70 percent. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z They found a dime-a-dance place just off Broadway where servicemen were given half rates. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I could feel my heart rate starting to slow, and then it raced again as I heard him ask me, “You work in public relations, is that correct? Huntingdon Whitely?” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Reyna got the uncomfortable impression he was seeing much more than her form - her heat signature, her heart rate, her level of fear. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Depending on the rate, the money might help him as well. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z But at any rate he had the appearance of being a person that you could talk to, if somehow you could cheat the telescreen and get him alone. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Territorial behavior similarly combines with a fierce disposition and a slow growth rate to banish rhinos from the farmyard. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Well, this’ll be fun at any rate,” she said as she ripped open The Club’s packaging. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z The truth, however, is that rates and patterns of drug crime do not explain the glaring racial disparities in our criminal justice system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But what we can say is that for the sample as a whole the rate of disappearance will be such that half the atoms will disappear every 30 seconds. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z On the ground, it crawls to its next tree at the rate of 250 metres an hour, when motivated, which is 440 times slower than a motivated cheetah. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z At any rate, it wasn’t in the right direction. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z These stark racial disparities cannot be explained by rates of drug crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Cal had dropped its rate to thirty-two and then thirty-one after the big ten, but at twenty-nine the Washington boat continued to inch ahead. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He looked indisposed — to see Sackville-Bagginses at any rate; and he stood up, fidgeting with something in his pocket. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “I mean, I’m a pretty good player, but I’m not ranked in the international lists or anything. Are you putting me in for the ratings? As some marketing ploy?” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The bus, as usual, was quiet when he climbed in—as proportionately quiet, at any rate, as a theatre with dimming house lights. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z “I needed a moment. I will never forget the way he panicked when his heart rate started speeding up...” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z ‘Where are their flocks? What are they, Gandalf? For it is plain that to you, at any rate, they are not strange.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Slater wrote Lawrence that the application concerned “your proton merry- go-round ... It never would have occurred to me to patent such a thing but I thought at any rate you would want to know.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z "For a while I was rated the Number Seven light-heavyweight contender." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “Less than an hour to go at this rate,” Maddie told her passenger. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z At any rate, a study of more than a thousand Wari and Tiwanaku graves found no evidence of the trauma associated with violence. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I know for a fact that my heart rate is in some kind of danger zone. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, the deaths kept coming at an alarming rate. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z At any rate, they remembered that at the critical moment of the battle Snowball had turned to flee. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z We tried many cases involving police brutality, though our success rate was quite low. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Dwarf digestion, due to its accelerated rate, can be quite explosive. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z On the immediate local front, reports showed that rental rates for apartments in Odessa had dropped 10 percent and occupancy rates 8 percent, boding disaster for a market that was woefully overbuilt from the boom. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Arthur Bisguier, the highest rated player in the tournament, also finished with a score of 10–2. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “You weren’t doing anything about your little crush. You hardly talked to Gregor. Someone else was going to hook him at that rate.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z The brown cake was a special wartime treat, when sugar was tightly rationed. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z When he started his business, he expected a 95 percent payment rate, based on the experience at his own office. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Nor did his insider knowledge of interest rates ever tempt him to take personal advantage: “But you remember the saying with regard to Caesar’s Wife,” he wrote to Henry Lee. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Many business travelers rated it as one of their least favorite airports, but Farmer loved layovers here. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The sum in the drawer is piling up but at the present rate of accumulation will be more than $100 short of my rent when the end of the month comes around. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z At any rate they never yet had done so. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z ROSE: We rate them all and then we make a decision. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z The second group, the people who were acting, showed the same physiological responses, the same heightened heart rate and body temperature, as the first group. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “The lemon ones, yes. The grape ones are Furies, I think. Or are they hydras? At any rate, these are potent. Don't take one unless you really, really need it.” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z His features, which would later settle into pleasant collaboration, were growing at different rates, giving him a curious face that seemed designed by committee. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z We can determine the present rate of expansion by measuring the velocities at which other galaxies are moving away from us, using the Doppler effect. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z There is a small negative correlation between death rates per thousand people in various regions of the country and divorce rates per thousand marriages in the same regions. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, no, not that, for God’s sake! not yet at any rate. Forgive me, sir: I did not mean to speak offensively; it is only because my loss is so recent.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Gasoline was rationed, and the lines of automobiles could last two days and a night, constricting the city like a gigantic motionless boa tanning itself in the sun. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The United States now has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, dwarfing the rates of nearly every developed country, even surpassing those in highly repressive regimes like Russia, China, and Iran. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “On a scale of one to ten, rate your current stress level.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z It’s an average rate, in other words, and you can apply it to any large sampling. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Similar rates of incarceration can be found in black communities across America. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z And the blaze of their colors made this room look, not exactly cheerful, but at any rate rich and majestic after all the dust and emptiness of the others. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z Back home in the United Kingdom, food, clothes, coal, gas, and electricity were in such short supply they had to be rationed. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Because of high rates of joblessness and incarceration among black men, marriage is not a viable option for many poor single mothers. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z At that rate, we had enough for only seven days more. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “At any rate, we are grateful that Percy brought this to our attention.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z In recent years, there have been two noteworthy trends in the overall payment rate. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z In 2005, New York became one of a small group of states to tie college financing more closely to graduation rates, rewarding colleges more for moving students along than for simply admitting them. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Despite similar crime rates, each government chose to impose different levels of punishment. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Well, she can swim now, at any rate...,” she said. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The Queen picked up the cat She was trying a well- known piseog to amuse herself, or at any rate to pass the time while the men were away at the war. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Germans stationed in France fill their duffels with items rationed or no longer available at home due to wartime restrictions. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z One factor to look for would be a correlation between each state’s abortion rate and its crime rate. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z An official of the Department explained that “an aggressive methods improvement program” showed the lower rate to be effective. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I’m not sure how I intended to land—maybe an artful somersault or something—but at any rate, I spilled onto the asphalt of the road, landing on my left shoulder. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Sure enough, the states with the highest abortion rates in the 1970s experienced the greatest crime drops in the 1990s, while states with low abortion rates experienced smaller crime drops. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z One contestant was thirteen, and there were several twenty-year-olds, all rated quite highly. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z ‘My real daughter Hygeia isn’t like that, I assure you. She’s quite nice. At any rate, you did well reprogramming the statue. You have a surgeon’s hands.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z That was one of the reasons the interest rates were so high — the moneylender ran the risk of losing his money altogether. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z At any rate, after a few months, one would leave and a week or so later another would come. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z My rates might be a little higher than average, but my guests do not have a single complaint. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z What they had in common was that they were all expert pilots with at least a commercial rating and more than 2,000 hours of flying time. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z The answer: yes indeed, additional police substantially lower the crime rate. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “I’ve sometimes wondered. At any rate, don’t worry about Fern—she’s just got a lively imagination. Kids think they hear all sorts of things.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z “But it was a sight we did not like, for the floes were thudding against our floeberg with increasing violence. Our temporary home was being swept away at an unpleasantly rapid rate.” Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z As noted earlier, at least 10 percent of Americans violate drug laws every year, and people of all races engage in illegal drug activity at similar rates. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z There’s always profit-taking or the federal deficit or something or other to account for a bearish turn, and improved corporate earnings or interest rates or whatever to account for a bullish one. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite their efforts, the affected villages had a mean death rate of 8.8 percent. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “At any rate, my affairs are the talk of the cafés.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Let’s dig a little deeper into the secret of Gottman’s success rate. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Moreover, the rate of expansion of the universe would automatically become very close to the critical rate determined by the energy density of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt the warmth inside my stomach, and my heart was beating slowly, but at a heavy rate. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The problem was how to get the Witch back to her own world, or at any rate out of ours, as soon as possible. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z “Regular rate. Nine bucks a week. Plus a fifty-cent key deposit. Strictly cash. Strictly in advance.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The suicide rate in 2008 was two and half times higher than in the United States and significantly higher than in nearby Japan, where suicide is deeply embedded in the culture. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “At the rate Mister Rufus has accidents,” I said, “he might live another six or seven years without me. I wouldn’t count on more than that.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z And to my astonishment, during the weeks that followed, the young girl did indeed make progress at a remarkable rate. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z At the rate they were going, her parents would probably never have a family meeting again. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z “Do you think that the civilizations of two planets can progress at the same rate and evolve in the same way, Hinkston?” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z I stopped, breathless, already a little ashamed of my outburst, feeling that now at any rate I had burnt my boats for all time. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Van Helsing did not seem to notice my silence; at any rate, he showed neither chagrin nor triumph. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z “Poor child!” cried Emma; “at that rate, what will become of her?” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z “Why not just throw him in a ditch now and be done with it? That’s where he’ll end up at this rate.” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z At this rate, Tigris may have new houseguests by lunch. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z But just as crime tends to be low on a street where a police car is parked, the 95 percent rate was artificially high: Feldman’s presence had deterred theft. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z But like violent crime in general, the murder rate cannot explain the growth of the penal apparatus. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z At any rate, he was certainly not thinking about Polly, or Uncle Andrew, or even his Mother. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z I have a great regard for you and Emma; but when it comes to the question of dependence or independence!—At any rate, it must be better to have only one to please than two.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z He wants his mom to keep her approval ratings up without having to manage a complication from her own family. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z If Native Americans had proceeded at the same rate in inventing or acquiring grafting techniques, they too would eventually have domesticated apples—around the year A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The visitor would be told that crime rates, black culture, or bad schools were to blame. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The Golden Snidget gains a X X X X rating not because it is dangerous but because severe penalties are attached to its capture or injury. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Did you that Jamaica has the sixth highest murder rate in the world?” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z In England, where emission controls barely exist, that rate has doubled. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Recon was a notoriously dangerous posting with a high fatality rate, and Root didn’t think it was any place for a girlie. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Drs. Reyburn and Woodward measured Garfield's temperature, breathing rate, and pulse three times a day and took turns spending the night at the White House. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z At any rate, he studied the papers even harder than I did. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z For the moment, at any rate, the lesson would not be given. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The lady talks to us about her concerns about the high unemployment rate, the recent school closings, the island’s debt. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z The companies that run the farms expect this death rate and figure it into the cost of production. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Frowning, biting the pencil, he pondered the results of his arithmetic—sales were dropping at an alarming rate. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Cleopatra Cowley-Pendleton was a warm woman with a soft voice and close-cropped hair who worked in customer service at a credit rating company. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z In no sense—no mechanical sense, at any rate—did the words and sentences look as though they had been written by a child. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z For example, one can calculate the probability that the universe is expanding at nearly the same rate in all different directions at a time when the density of the universe has its present value. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They die at a rate of two or three a week. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Traveling close to the speed of light you would hardly age at all, but your friends and your relatives back home would be aging at the usual rate. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “At any rate, I was jealous. Instead of confronting them and finding out the truth, I shifted the wind and sent a heavy metal ring right at Hyacinthus’s head and...well.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z On the beach behind him was a cutter, her bows hauled up and held by two ratings. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z His heart: they fed him medicine to see how low his heart rate could go, and they were probably disappointed when his heart temporarily stopped. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Such holes hardly deserve the epithet black: they really are white hot and are emitting energy at a rate of about ten thousand megawatts. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z At any rate, small darts stung his legs and he had to fight to keep from moving. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Within days, the mortality rate from bacterial infections decreases to levels never before achieved. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z She knocks—as if there were a door—and says she has to take my heart rate. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z ‘The afternoon is getting on. Let us go and look round! You can enter Isengard now at any rate, Strider, if you want to. But it is not a very cheerful sight.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The directors thought this was too much to ask, given their struggle to boost the rate of paid admission. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I experience so many different health conditions— rapid heart rate, elevated blood pressure, dry mouth, pulmonary shock, muscle spasm—that it is impossible for me to even chronicle the degree of body breakdown. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z These rules have made it possible for law enforcement agencies to boost dramatically their rates of drug arrests and convictions, even in communities where drug crime is stable or declining. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The rate of childhood obesity was rising all around the country. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “Certainly I shall. If a man like you, who knows the animals from experience, can’t hazard a good guess at any rate, who is even to try?” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z O’Hare had a little notebook with him, and printed in the back of it were postal rates and airline distances and the altitudes of famous mountains and other key facts about the world. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “I could definitely hold two leashes. If we got three other dogs at the same rate, then we could each make three times as much. Eighty dollars per week for each of us.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z The exchange rate is a farce, the price of carrots indefensible, duplicity lives everywhere. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He returned, drank a cup of scalding black coffee at an alarming rate of speed, and said, “Mr. Finch, I’d better be going.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Always a thrifty traveler, Milton was also encouraged by the room rates. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z "Blood pressure zero, pulse rate zero, temperature normal." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z In the third minute, Hume dropped it to thirty-two, and even as the boys dropped the rate, the boat stayed out in front and began to widen its lead. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z A jockey’s pay couldn’t begin to cover the sky-high insurance rates his job warranted, much less the doctor’s bills. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In states with high abortion rates, the entire decline in crime was among the post-Roe cohort as opposed to older criminals. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Finally, they located an old broken-down pirate taxi whose owner charged them four times the going rate. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, at the same time that civil rights were being identified as a threat to law and order, the FBI was reporting fairly dramatic increases in the national crime rate. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The Depression had come, and the unemployment rate was nearing 25 percent. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z By 1984, however, the black unemployment rate had nearly quadrupled, while the white rate had increased only marginally. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z You may make a fine employee or deserve low premiums or a good credit rating, but if your correlatives are perceived to be lacking in some way, you’ll have difficulty, too. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The balloon lifted immediately and surged upward into the snow-thick air at a rate Lyra could scarcely believe. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He brags about his rating in some basketball video game to Zane-with-the-nose-ring. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Only Sam was doubtful: he at any rate still thought boats as bad as wild horses, or worse, and not all the dangers that he had survived made him think better of them. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z On the edges the inhabitants would be plastered up against the walls with a force that would change as the rotation rate changed. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z As a doctor, with his finger against a pulse, is able to feel the heart rate, when I am up there speaking, I can feel the reaction to what I am saying. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I was speechless, too: It was seven hundred Zim dollars, as the new rate was thirty-five Zim dollars for one US dollar. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z The dropout rate was quite high, but it didn’t seem to matter all that much. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Without having to look behind him, he knew the Grievers were gaining ground at an alarming rate. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z For sentences that have been repeated verbatim in questionnaires over the decades, the rate of acceptance has increased over time. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z After twenty seconds I hit pause and took Mrs. B’s heart rate again. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z He was in the floor-covering business in Houston, but high interest rates kind of put a damper on that. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z At this rate, she might not get there till dark. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z At any rate, Daddy usually comes to my defense. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z When it reaches a normal rate, the screen flashes green and the Dauntless cheer. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Its per capita rate of violent crime made it the second most dangerous city in America, but its citizens still paid some of the highest rents in the country. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The jobless rate for young black male dropouts, including those incarcerated, is a staggering 65 percent. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z At any rate, I was pretty sure nobody else realized we were dealing with genuine man-eating bloodthirsty monsters. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z The city’s 80 percent unemployment rate, a result of the Great Depression, had led factory managers to reduce wages and inspired thousands of citizens to support the strikers. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z At that rate—she walked off sections of road with her fingers—it would be days. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The rate of car exhaust suicides in the States has declined since the mid-sixties, when emission controls were introduced. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Many items are rationed—meat, cheese, butter, lard, coffee, sugar, silk, nylon, shoes; our entire way of business changes as we work with those flimsy blue booklets. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z As for the girls, my girls at any rate, they seem to have been bom with some kind of protective coating, some immunity I lacked. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z ‘It could have been a figure of speech: very little time before the wolves arrive. Perhaps Hades didn’t literally mean wolves. At any rate, we should leave as soon as it’s dark enough for shadows.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Beginning in the 1970s, researchers found that racial attitudes—not crime rates or likelihood of victimization—are an important determinant of white support for “get tough on crime” and antiwelfare measures. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z At the rate I’m going, I’ll have no friends left by Friday. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z ‘I knew these horsemen were pursuing me; but now at any rate they seem to have missed me and to have gone away.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z At any rate I wasn’t in the bathroom every five minutes. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z At that rate it would take 64 days to get to Schiaparelli. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Even Darwin, among the strongest original proponents of the fundamental mutability of nature, would have found this rate of mutation surprising. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z At that rate, we would be at trial until the millennium. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z After much thought, the Alvarezes concluded that the most plausible explanation–plausible to them, at any rate–was that the Earth had been struck by an asteroid or comet. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Human populations reproduce at the rate of roughly three generations per century, but new insect generations arise in a matter of days or weeks. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Brookhaven settled for a cosmotron rated at 2.5 billion volts, though it received the GAC’s explicit promise that it could come back to the well for bigger machines in the future. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I thought you might be interested in knowing that I’ve just read in Social Revulsion that Louisiana has the highest illiteracy rate in the U.S. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus the radiation at high frequencies would be reduced, and so the rate at which the body lost energy would be finite. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Today, due to recent declines, U.S. crime rates have dipped below the international norm. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The village, like many in Vietnam, had high rates of polio, a disease that caused muscle weakness, even paralysis. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z At this rate it would be hours before they even got onto the highway. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z I am trying not to tell stories, or at any rate not this one. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z I decided against it, though, since, unless one has a large bankroll, the rate at which one wins money is too slow to be worth the time and intense concentration required. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “I spend a good part of the year after the football season drumming that message into the students and the faculty that we are not second- rate,” he admitted. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The city’s murder rate was starting to tick upward—a sign of even more trouble to come. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Genes and brains and books encode information differently and persist through time at different rates. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The forge spat out nails at a remarkable rate. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Facts, at any rate, could not be kept hidden. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z At any rate, I was seated in one of the booths, having rested the lumber jacket on top of the door of the booth. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A mile above the finish line, he finally called on them to take up the stroke rate. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I find a bench beneath a live feed of Brazilian researchers studying the growth rates of various grasses. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z At any rate, he pulled out a small bottle of wine and offered us some. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet the U.S. incarceration rate quadrupled, the Finnish rate fell by 60 percent, and the German rate was stable in that period. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z News of such wrecks was received by islanders with a grim brand of determinism; it seemed to many that such things were ordained by God, or at any rate unavoidable. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Even in Texas, where nearly 40 percent of the nearly 1,400 modern-era executions in the United States had taken place, the death-sentencing rate had dropped dramatically, and the pace of executions had finally slowed. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z VH1 had its best ratings ever for the first season of Flavor of Love—ratings driven by large white audiences. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The weak force engages in more miscellaneous tasks, mostly to do with controlling the rates of certain sorts of radioactive decay. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It was conceived a century ago as a kind of woodland bank, a permanent repository of American timber, when people grew alarmed at the rate at which American forests were falling. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z One purchasing committee found a large department store which gave us wholesale rates on everything from underwear to baseball gloves. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z A knight in his full armour of those days, or at any rate during the heaviest days of armour, was generally carrying as much or more than his own weight in metal. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z At this rate, Lou and I will be vying to give the school's valedictorian speech in June. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It would be good to drive out to the coast guard station, too, and get a full storm report, the speed of the wind, the height of the tides, the rate of snowfall. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Those were the last words he spoke, in this life at any rate. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z At any rate in our family my sons and daughter had always been as one in their thinking: such schism as there was opened between them and us, never between themselves. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Nixon’s approval rating rose to nearly 60 percent. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “Look. We weren’t entirely honest with you before, about being blown off course. The truth is, the ratings for Captains Bodacious IV have been down. Really down.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z It was how Jackson got locals to trust him instead of the banks, even though his rates were straight usury as well. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z A sharp note would rate a thin beetlike nose zooming off it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “At any rate,” Hercules said, “if you’re Jupiter’s son, you might understand. It’s a lot of pressure. Enough is never enough. Eventually it can make a guy snap.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z At any rate she seemed to have forgotten Mother Fletcher. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Mama always rates kids’ manners and comments on who has the best ones. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Moch and Hume kept the rate up until they passed the Czechs at three hundred meters. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Control of the gnats was at first good, but by 1954 the treatment had to be repeated, this time at the rate of 1 part of insecticide in 50 million parts of water. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Since things were not going well financially, the labor was paid less than the minimum rates specified by the Trade Union. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Altogether it is thought–though it is really only a guess, based on extrapolating from cratering rates on the Moon–that some two thousand asteroids big enough to imperil civilized existence regularly cross our orbit. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I stay downstairs with Serena, Shoji, and my two sisters, who seem to be growing at an impossibly fast rate. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “You see now,” said O’Brien, “that it is at any rate possible.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Similarly, if and when crime rates rise—which seems likely if the nation’s economy continues to sour—nothing would deter politicians from making black and brown men, once again, their favorite whipping boys. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z At this rate, how long would it take for that magic to flow like water, move like streams and rivers and oceans? The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Scientists speak out against the use of certain neonicotinoids, and some countries limit or ban their use on crops, but the rate of collapse remains unchanged. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z At any rate, this time Mr. Popper found himself suddenly sliding, on his own white-clad stomach, down the three flights of steps. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z In the middle of the nineteenth century, the rate of alcoholism was high in the United States, and with the high rates of drinking came violence, much of it targeting women in their own homes. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “Tipped him off about whom you work for, didn’t you? Well, it’s your first time on your own. I have the recordings at any rate. See you back at Batalla Hall.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Somewhere he’d heard that normal usage of water was a gallon a day, and even at that rate he had enough for three weeks—twenty-one days. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Ulbrickson had instructed him to keep the stroke rate as low as he could for as long as he possibly could. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “At any rate, Madame, you are quite happy and contented now?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Murder rates are higher there than in the rest of the country. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “I made a little silver for the capture at any rate, and returned another boy to its master along the way. Profit in the end.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Stroke rate is one thing and power is another. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z An analysis of more than 160 episodes reveals that black contestants, in both the early and late rounds of the game, are eliminated at a rate commensurate with their trivia-answering abilities. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z My heart rate finally elevated slightly above somber territory as we engaged in a heated debate over which came first, the chicken or the egg. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Bear in mind we are not office workers, sitting around idling at the basal metabolic rate. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z If we drop the uranium ore into a heavy lead canister, the count rate declines substantially; the lead has absorbed the uranium radiation. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Beginning in the 1960s, crime rates rose in the United States for a period of about ten years. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z As described in chapter 1, during the late 1970s, jobs had suddenly disappeared from urban areas across America, and unemployment rates had skyrocketed. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “It’s okay,” said Harry, still breathing rather faster than usual, while his heart rate returned to normal. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Then we had to try to get Masterman and Hector into his employment—or at any rate one of them. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, at that rate you’re going to find us a sloppy lot, I’m afraid. Was there anyone else who looked like coming when you jumped in?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z With flames consuming the compound at an alarming rate, the captain made a judgment call. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Not sex, even—I keep it rated Teen for the kids out there—just love.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z If you let her, Lorraine would eat until she dropped, and if she keeps going at that rate, I’m afraid she’s going to be somewhat more than voluptuous, She could end up just plain fat. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z Taran shouted at her, but the clods continued flying at a great rate. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z |
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