1.   On Thursday, the central bank lowered both its floor and ceiling rates by a quarter point.

2.   The evidence for the feelings of persecution came from the discussions of the fixing of wage rates by personnel managers.

3.   There is some evidence that we can further increase the metabolic rate by taking regular aerobic exercise.

4.   Thus it should be possible to measure growth rate by this method.

5.   They determined aging rates by eye, using semi-log paper.

6.   The Bank of England has cut the base rate by one per cent to eight per cent, its lowest level since June nineteen eighty-eight.

7.   An economic research group cautions that a rush to reduce electric rates by making the utility industry competitive could backfire if supply shortages occur.

8.   Analysts widely expected it to cut the rate by another half-point Wednesday.

9.   Analysts, traders and investors had expected a cut to the intervention rate by between a tenth and a quarter of a percentage point.

10.   And that millions of these libidinally enhanced males will raise the sexual-harassment rate by a terrifying order of magnitude?