On the shortlist of services that should not be permitted to be run by any council are leisure centres, which seem to soak up money at a rate of knots.
They are coming through at a rate of knots and in large numbers.
It is growing at a rate of knots.
Coal pits closed at a rate of knots, one every six weeks, between 1964 and 1970.
They will start drifting away at a rate of knots if the position is not clarified.
These students move at a rate of knots.
This is apparently extending at a rate of knots.
We are living in an age where regulation is extending at a rate of knots.
