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At this rate, the risk is high that our country's competitive position will drop even further.

divorce rate

As the attendees of the DTA General Meeting will be offered the block rate, when you reserve Marriott Hotel for me, please notify them that I will attend it.

A recent analysis by Boeing forecasts that unless safety is improved, jet airliners could be falling out of the sky at the rate of once a week by the year 2010.

In China, there is a large number of characters, so the goal of the character simplification was to replace the complex traditional characters with easy to remember simplified characters and increase the literacy rate.

While the birth rate is intended to be decreased in developing countries, that of developed nations is selfishly planned to be increased, resulting in the difficulty of getting mutual consent.

Japan's ODA largely consists of concessionary yen credit repayable in 30 years, carrying an interest rate of 2% or so.

One month since entering high school ... not a single friend yet. That's really terrible, at this rate it will be middle-school all over again!!

Although an increase of unmarried mothers is needed in order to escape the declining birth rate for some reason public opinion in Japan is avoiding this argument.

A high savings rate is cited as one factor for Japan's strong economic growth because it means the availability of abundant investment capital.

Women in their hearts think that men are intended to earn money so that they may spend it, if possible during their husband's lifetime, but at any rate after his death.

The Chinese government has spent a lot of money on research into successful panda breeding in order to increase their birth rate.

If it is true that the Greeks forbade women to go to the play, they acted in a right way; for they would at any rate be able to hear something.

Following the demographic data, the government was obliged to adopt a policy that would stimulate birth rate.

I bid against him.

A bid for something or a bid to do something is an attempt to obtain it or do it

to make a bid for sth; Boris quickly announced his leadership bid, but was promptly stabbed in the back

I'm placing a bid on that painting at the auction. I hope nobody else outbids me!

The deadline for bids fell today.

When Sony came back with a 2 billion bid, CBS could not refuse.

How often do you buy things online or bid on eBay?

It is not an offer or a bid from the EU. in a bid to send a message of support to this country

boid (bidden)

4 people bid for Aunt Jane's clock at the Sunday auction.

The price is not the only selection criterion for the best bid.

Appoint subcontractors, usually after putting the work out to tender (= announcing publicly that work is needed and giving different companies the opportunity to bid for the work)

She made a bid for the oil painting, but someone else made a higher one and got it in the end.

Obviously the UK Government has put in a bid for solidarity fund money.