rates
Example Sentences
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If workers are patient, or unsuccessful, inflation may fall back to pre-war rates even without a rise in borrowing costs.
Russian women say the idea of "therapising" them into having children is coercive, cruel and unworkable, and will do little to reverse declining birth rates -- currently at their lowest in 200 years.
From Barron's
TOKYO—A key gauge of business sentiment in Japan improved for a fourth straight quarter even as war in the Middle East raises price pressures, keeping the central bank on track to continue raising rates.
“Uncertainty due to oil, growth and rates isn’t going away. But major deals are still getting done,” said Ben Goodchild, a partner in the M&A group at law firm Paul Weiss.
All of Northern Ireland's councils have reported increases in their district rates.
From BBC
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