Example sentences of "to [adj] per " in BNC.
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| 1 | These would reduce the basic income tax rate to 28 per cent which with 7.8 per cent social security contributions would bring the basic overall contribution rate to 35.8 per cent as against 48.3 per cent currently . |
| 2 | Within a declining overall level of grant , there has been a marked increase in the share targeted for particular purposes ( specific and supplementary grants rose from 17.6 per cent of the total grant in 1981/82 to 23.6 per cent in 1986/87 ( Douglas and Lord , 1986 , p. 29 ) ) . |
| 3 | For example , during the first half of this century , Saville ( 1957,7 ) noted that the percentage of the population in urban districts has risen from 72.0 per cent in 1891 to 80.7 per cent in 1951 and that : |
| 4 | Margins improved from 7.8 per cent to 8.4 per cent in 1991 and are expected to reach 10 per cent in the current year . |
| 5 | Unemployment rose to 13.3 per cent , the highest in Western Europe . |
| 6 | Almost every high street building society and bank is offering fixed-rate deals in the ten to eleven per cent band ( the APR is slightly higher ) which offer borrowers anything from five years to 25 years of stability . |
| 7 | In 1987 , the last year for which complete figures are available , foreign investment accounted for 7.6 per cent of US stocks ( up sharply to 8.9 per cent last year ) , while foreign share of US manufacturing was 12.2 per cent , and of US employment a much smaller 3.5 per cent . |
| 8 | Inflation was projected to fall to 8.9 per cent from its current official level of 23 per cent . |
| 9 | The fiscal evidence also points to an increase in its wealth in relation to the country as a whole : between 1334 and 1515 the assessed wealth of the city increased fifteenfold in absolute terms , and from 2 per cent to 8.9 per cent of the assessed wealth of the nation as a whole ( 101 ) . |
| 10 | More than 50% of oat bran fibre is water-soluble compared to eight per cent of what bran fibre . |
| 11 | They found that , between the global latitudes of 53 and 64 degrees north , ozone was reduced by up to eight per cent . |
| 12 | The discount will rise to eight per cent once the bill reaches £250 . |
| 13 | VAT was introduced in April 1973 and from then the standard rate has varied from ten per cent to eight per cent to fifteen per cent , and the Treasury is empowered to change the rate at any time . |
| 14 | However , in such countries at Bangladesh , Nepal , Pakistan and Yemen , where one half of the girls are married at around age 13 , 15 and 16 , respectively ( and contraceptives are used by only from one to eight per cent of all married women of reproductive age ) the first child is born , on average , from three to five years later , compared to usually less than two years in countries where the median age at marriage is , at least , 17 years . |
| 15 | The Bank of England has cut the base rate by one per cent to eight per cent , its lowest level since June nineteen eighty-eight . |
| 16 | Beaux , Mr Tapie 's longtime lieutenant , who will become head of the adidas supervisory board , has raised her stake to eight per cent from five per cent . |
| 17 | Six weeks before the October general election , figures in mid-September showed that inflation had dropped sharply in August , rising only 0.2 per cent , while unemployment had fallen the same month to 16.6 per cent of the active workforce , the lowest level since 1982 . |
| 18 | The first stage began in June 1990 of the government 's economic austerity programme , aimed at reducing the fiscal deficit from 5.4 per cent to 1.5 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) . |
| 19 | In August , inflation had reduced to 1.5 per cent , the lowest figure in 17 years . |
| 20 | The minimum threshold for parties to win seats had been raised since the 1988 election from 1 to 1.5 per cent of the vote . |
| 21 | Although it was announced last November that the awards would be down to 1.5 per cent , that did not stop politicians and union leaders from condemning the Government 's action . |
| 22 | Pointing out that the grant settlement was based on wage awards from zero to 1.5 per cent , Mr Gray added : ‘ Even assuming that such a level of wage settlement can be negotiated , there is no doubt that some very difficult service and job-loss decisions will require to be taken in the next few weeks . |
| 23 | In addition , the premiums charged are being reduced from 2.5 per cent to 0.5 per cent for fixed rate loans and to 1.5 per cent for variable rate lending . |
| 24 | Firstly , there are is the mainstream of PEP managers who do not impose any additional charges on the PEP over and above the basic unit trust charges , which are typically between 5 and 6 per cent initial and 1 to 1.5 per cent annual . |
| 25 | By 1980 , after the first two out of a total of four literacy campaigns , the illiteracy rate for the population over fifteen years old had been brought down to 72.2 per cent from 93 per cent at independence . |
| 26 | The Halcrow report showed that , while overall some 30 per cent of UK drinking water comes from aquifers , this varies from 6 per cent in Wales to 74 per cent in Southern Water 's region . |
| 27 | In contrast , in single-parent families where the adult was working , the offending rate shot to 74 per cent . |
| 28 | By the 1987 parliament it had risen only to thirty-seven per cent . |
| 29 | Operating margins were squeezed from 17.2 to 16.9 per cent as the company had to increase wage rates in line with NHS rises . |
| 30 | Britain 's aid budget has fallen to 0.32 per cent of gross national product , less than half UN 's target of 0.7 per cent . |