They are not merely running fast to stand still; they are being propelled backwards at a rate of knots.
Much work has been done at a rate of knots, and we have an opportunity to look at the legislation in greater detail.
In fact, productivity has been improving at a rate of knots in the past six or seven years.
Yet we are destroying them at a rate of knots.
However, it has had the same sort of increase in its waiting list, although it has been selling council houses at a rate of knots.
At the end of the commercial he disappears down a country road driving his float at a rate of knots.
Things began to improve, took off at a rate of knots, and activity has risen phenomenally since the hospital opened.
We are living in an age where regulation is extending at a rate of knots.