Example sentences for: rate

How can you use “rate” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It was determined from the result of F1K-MC-EVAD (PROWESS) that the 28-day mortality rate in 7-day survivors receiving drotrecogin alfa (activated) was 15.

  • But now the teen-age out-of-wedlock birth rate seems to be leveling off--reflecting, Chatterbox supposes, some hard-won equilibrium between teen-agers' greater use of contraceptives, on the one hand, and their greater disinclination to marry their high school sweethearts, on the other.

  • But it had an even higher rate of internal investment, thanks to an inflow of foreign capital.

  • The melanogaster sequences were found to be only 1.3% (9 substitutions/685 nucleotide sites) diverged from that of D. mauritiana . This value is significantly less than half of the expected 4.3 % (± 2.7) divergence based on the Drosophila neutral substitution rate of 0.016 (± 0.005) substitutions/site/million year [ 18 ] over the estimated 2.7 million years separating the two species [ 19 ] .

  • In this issue, for example, we publish an important randomized controlled trial of a malaria vaccine in 372 Gambian men, which found that the vaccine was ineffective at reducing the natural infection rate.


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