1. The bank strongly resisted cutting interest rates.

2. Birth rates are notoriously difficult to predict.

3. Interest rates are an important instrument of economic policy.

4. Their new mining method rates with the coal-miners.

5. Surveys offered at reasonable rates.

6. It appears unlikely that interest rates will fall further.

7. Observers are predicting a fall in interest rates.

8. They wooed customers by offering low interest rates.

9. Contrary to expectations(http://sentencedict.com/rates.html), interest rates did not rise.

10. Interest rates have been fluctuating wildly.

11. There was a downturn in interest rates this week.

12. The central bank has put up interest rates.

13. A rise in the interest rates seems inevitable.

14. Currency exchange rates are always subject to variation.

15. High interest rates make credit expensive.

16. Rates of work are calculated on a weekly basis.

17. Work out the full weekly rent, plus your rates.

18. The rebels want another 1% cut in interest rates.

19. Lower interest rates pleased millions of mortgage payers.

20. Inflation rates have reached a plateau.

21. The Treasury has decided to raise interest rates as a pre-emptive measure against inflation.

22. Relative rates of house price inflation have evened out across the country.

23. The higher rates have been a hind-rance to economic recovery.

24. Lower rates mean that firms are more likely to rack up profits in the coming months.

25. Unions bargain with employers for better rates of pay each year.

26. The rise in interest rates had a direct bearing on the company's profits.

27. Advice to investors was based on the premise that interest rates would continue to fall.

28. It's a bad lookout for the company if interest rates don't come down.

29. It is not surprising that children learn to read at different rates.

30. The President has chosen to kick-start the economy by slashing interest rates.