Example sentences of "cent [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a carefully selected equity portfolio you can get 10 per cent off a room at selected Hilton Hotels ( Ladbroke Group ) , a cut price ‘ exclusive ’ two-week African safari , 15 per cent off two transatlantic voyages on the QE2 ( Trafalgar House ) , and a free centre court ticket at Wimbledon ( All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet ) for every day tennis is played . |
| 2 | THE lure of 20 per cent off the cost of a portion of fish ‘ n ’ chips at Harry Ramsden 's Yorkshire restaurant has proved irresistable to thousands of small investors . |
| 3 | Even at 40 per cent off the list price it still costs £1,500 , plus VAT -a bit over the top for me . |
| 4 | Patients are charged 35 per cent off the dentist 's normal private fee for dentures , crowns , bridges or other treatment involving a dental laboratory or they are charged the laboratory costs . |
| 5 | Most offer more than 50 per cent off the cost , not only of the activity , such as badminton , karate , table tennis , swimming or rowing , for example , but also of the equipment : badminton racquets , table tennis bats and rowing boats . |
| 6 | And it could knock 10 per cent off the National Health Service 's drugs bill by undermining price agreements between the government and the major drug companies . |
| 7 | Lotus communications chief Patrick Peal said : ‘ Cars are cheaper and with one per cent off the base rate borrowing the money to buy a car is also cheaper . ’ |
| 8 | Generous discounts were available : 33 per cent off the market value for tenants of three years ' standing , rising by 1 per cent a year up to a maximum of 50 per cent after a total of twenty years as a tenant . |
| 9 | A cut of 1.5 per cent until January 1993 can be combined with an indefinite larger loan discount that is a full one per cent off the variable rate — a real bonus . |
| 10 | If the client has a salary in excess of forty-five thousand , you still take the seventy-five per cent off the forty-five , but you could then take a third of whatever is over that forty-five . |
| 11 | The shares collapsed 5p to 14p , wiping 26 per cent off the value of the company , 49 per cent controlled by Slough Estates . |
| 12 | Company employees plus a guest can get 35 per cent off the admission price to the Science Museum in London and the National Railway Museum , York . |
| 13 | In a separate development , British Aerospace confirmed it had raised its stake in Ferranti to 1.7 per cent through the purchase of 5.72 million shares . |
| 14 | Radio Investments has taken its stake in Kent-based radio station Invicta Sound to 10.47 per cent through the purchase of another 1.39 per cent . |
| 15 | Growth rates vary according to the polymer type , with ABS/SAN expanding at 6 per cent through the 1990s , compared with 8 per cent for the other engineering polymers . |
| 16 | The Centre for Alternative Technology ( CAT ) has worked out that , on average , 20 per cent of heating goes through the roof , 25 per cent through the walls , 10 per cent through the floor , 10 per cent through the windows and 10 per cent in draughts . |
| 17 | The Centre for Alternative Technology ( CAT ) has worked out that , on average , 20 per cent of heating goes through the roof , 25 per cent through the walls , 10 per cent through the floor , 10 per cent through the windows and 10 per cent in draughts . |
| 18 | The Centre for Alternative Technology ( CAT ) has worked out that , on average , 20 per cent of heating goes through the roof , 25 per cent through the walls , 10 per cent through the floor , 10 per cent through the windows and 10 per cent in draughts . |
| 19 | It has been calculated that in an average semidetached house only twenty-five per cent of the heat generated actually warms the house : twenty per cent may be lost through unlagged upstairs ceilings and the roof ; twenty per cent through windows , doors and flues ; twenty-five per cent through external walls and ten per cent through the ground floor . |
| 20 | Announcing the package in parliament , Keating said that the spending programme was the first stage of a four-year " strategy for growth " which would produce an average GDP growth of 4 per cent , cutting unemployment from the current post-war high of 10.3 per cent to 7.75 per cent through the creation of 800,000 jobs . |
| 21 | The latter , although more populous at 1.09 billion , has slowed its growth rate to less than two per cent through the introduction of family planning . |
| 22 | Official figures out yesterday indicated that British consumers saved at the lowest rate for 31 years while living standards actually declined 0.6 per cent between the first and second quarters of the year . |
| 23 | Indeed , instead of declining , the effect of political interest on awareness of ‘ other ’ Conservative politicians actually rose from 32 per cent to 37 per cent between the Pre-Campaign Wave and the end of the campaign , and its effect on awareness of ‘ other ’ Labour politicians declined only from 38 per cent to 34 per cent . |
| 24 | Industrial output fell by 11 per cent between the second quarter of 1 979 and the last quarter of 1982 , and between 1979 and 1985 industry shed 1.5 million workers . |
| 25 | The proportion blaming poverty on ‘ circumstances ’ rather than fecklessness rose from 30 to 49 per cent between the two dates . |
| 26 | The late Victorian and Edwardian period offered low taxes , cheap servant labour , and reasonable returns of capital whilst the retail price index fell by around 10 per cent between the wars . |
| 27 | The number of tax-paying urban households fell by no less than 45 per cent between the mid sixteenth century and the 1620s , and recovery was protracted and uneven . |
| 28 | White-collar workers increased their share of manufacturing employment from 27.6 to 31.7 per cent between the 1971 and 1981 Censuses ; that is to say that services provided in offices and laboratories within manufacturing concerns increased in relative importance and largely escaped the process of job reduction which took place on the shop floor . |
| 29 | TI said that business failures notified to it rose by 6.7 per cent between the second and third quarters of 1991 , and were 78 per cent higher than in the corresponding period in 1990 . |
| 30 | Hence if the gravitational force depended , like the strong force , on the number of nucleons rather than mass there would be a difference of 0.7 per cent between the gravitational acceleration of iron and hydrogen . |