Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [prep] [art] [adj] per " in BNC.
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| 1 | On January 3 , 1979 , road transport drivers stopped work over a 25 per cent claim , paralysing dock movements , starving industry of supplies , putting thousands on short time and causing panic buying of food and threats of rationing . |
| 2 | I can not give credence to the 17 per cent . |
| 3 | IG Metall had opened region-by-region negotiations in this sector on March 4 but employers rejected demands for a 9.5 per cent increase , offering instead 3.3 per cent . |
| 4 | ‘ We will use whatever influence we have to the full to ensure , for example , that you do n't tax middle-managers with a 49 per cent rate at £27,000 , and you do n't tax people above £40,000 with a combined 59 per cent rate . |
| 5 | In Pakistan : ‘ The wholesale exemption of EPZ enterprises from the provisions of so many labour laws leaves many issues to the mercy of the individual contract of employment ’ ( p.709 ) , while in the Philippines : ‘ The Bataan administrator said that some EPZ employees were paying 75 per cent of the minimum wage for six months , then dismissing the workers and hiring others at the 75 per cent rate ’ ( p.711 ) . |
| 6 | But the net cost of 1 million raised from selling shares with a 10 per cent dividend is 100,000 per annum . |
| 7 | So why not take advantage of the 15 per cent discount offered to all Ideal Home subscribers until May 1993 ? |
| 8 | If the information were perfect the launch would take place in the 70 per cent of cases where a 10 per cent share was forecast and not in the others . |
| 9 | If the information were perfect the launch would take place in the 70 per cent of cases where a 10 per cent share was forecast and not in the others . |
| 10 | This card costs approximately twelve pounds p.a. and entitles holders to a ten per cent discount on accommodation . |
| 11 | The listing , which is to raise £4.8m through a 38.5 per cent placing , will give the club a market capitalisation of £13m , worth about the same as Tottenham Hotspur , the only other English football club to be publicly owned . |
| 12 | After all , a large screen TV showing video in a 16 per cent window will be more easily viewed than a small screen television showing full frame video . |
| 13 | France has taken notice of the 15 per cent Green vote in the regional elections and stopped nuclear testing in the Pacific . |
| 14 | Labour won Langbaurgh with a 3.6 per cent swing from the Conservatives , in a campaign marred by alleged racial insinuations against the successful Labour candidate , Ashok Kumar . |
| 15 | Management leaders repeated their refusal to countenance arbitration over the 6.5 per cent offer . |
| 16 | IF you still have some Christmas presents to buy , why not pay a visit to the shop at your local Historic Scotland monument and take advantage of the 10 per cent discount available to Friends ? |
| 17 | Hundreds of members have already left the association after its leaders recommended acceptance of the 9 per cent , 18-month pay offer rejected a month ago by the unions . |
| 18 | The deal does not involve them getting options on TVS shares or any large stake in the company like the package offered to executives at London Weekend Television who stand to become millionaires through a 15 per cent holding . |
| 19 | The deal does not involve them getting options on TVS shares or any large stake in the company like the package offered to executives at London Weekend Television who stand to become millionaires through a 15 per cent holding . |