Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] a [num] per " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the figures of 2,561 drivers humiliated for a 3.2 per cent return were only the average over the previous three years in Nottingham . |
| 2 | If both V and Q are constant , will ( a ) a £10 million rise in M lead to a £10 million rise in P ; ( b ) a 10 per cent rise in M lead to a 10 per cent rise in P ? |
| 3 | Thus it was that the 30 mph ( 50 km/h ) speed limit in built up areas led to a 50 per cent reduction in pedestrian deaths in London by 1935 . |
| 4 | The first series of riots began in Lagos on May 4 when commuters protested against a 500 per cent fare increase imposed by taxi and minibus drivers who were trying to cope with an acute fuel shortage [ see p. 38853 ] and with spiralling inflation . |
| 5 | The total volume of French defence spending for the period 1990-93 which was to have been around F470,000 million , ( in line with a 1987 law providing for a 6 per cent annual growth rate in real terms ) , was to be cut by approximately F42,000 million . |
| 6 | Women from manual origins have about a 1.5 per cent chance of a top occupation , though 10 per cent go into lower professional jobs ; 48 per cent enter office work . |
| 7 | The Bush administration also moved on proposals for tax cuts , designed to appeal to middle-class voters hurt by the recession , and to counter a plan put forward by Senate finance committee chairman Lloyd Bentsen ( Democrat , Texas ) for tax cuts of $72,000 million over five years financed by a 5 per cent cut in defence spending . |
| 8 | There was no increase in the licence fee to pay for a 50 per cent jump in programme hours . |
| 9 | SYDNEY ( Reuter ) — Australia 's airline pilots said they were withdrawing the 30 per cent pay claim at the heart of a dispute that has disrupted domestic air services and were seeking instead an unspecified rise based on a 25 per cent increase in productivity . |
| 10 | They conclude that the effect of market share upon ROI is much less than earlier studies showed and that , broadly , a 1 per cent increase in market share led to a 0.1 per cent increase in ROI rather than the 0.5 per cent earlier supposed . |
| 11 | In response to a question in Parliament in 1984 , figures based on a 10 per cent sample were given of the comparative success rates of different types of representation . |
| 12 | Thousands of demonstrators protested in Tehran on July 6-12 against recent price rises including a 500 per cent rise in bus fares . |
| 13 | ‘ We would have been happy to let the variable premium scheme that expired in April 1989 run forever , but the CAP reforms focused on a 30 per cent reduction in cereal prices over three years and the commission decided it was necessary to compensate beef farmers feeding cattle on grass , ’ he said . |
| 14 | The dressing-down comes as a 60 per cent rise in complaints against banks was revealed yesterday . |
| 15 | Suppose the firm 's income consists of a 50 per cent chance of £2000 and a 50 per cent chance of nothing . |
| 16 | Increased consumption of fossil fuels was in part caused by a 6 per cent reduction in electricity generated from nuclear power , due to a decline in imports of nuclear electricity from France and the prolonged shutdown of several nuclear power stations for maintenance . |
| 17 | Declining consumption of coal , oil and gas led to a 3 per cent fall in the UK 's carbon dioxide emissions , to 156 million tonnes , in 1992 . |
| 18 | The government agreed to a 100 per cent pay increase , to meet demands for job security , to index wages to inflation , to set up an inquiry into the current salaries of health workers and teachers , to reinstate all workers dismissed since March , and to involve the unions in revising the Civil Service Law . |
| 19 | DEMOCRAT Bill Clinton leapt to a 21 per cent lead over Bush in a major poll released yesterday . |
| 20 | They are joining 19,000 ambulance crew members protesting against a 6.5 per cent pay offer . |
| 21 | Amongst those who were Conservative or Labour before the campaign , press bias had about a 6 per cent effect ; amongst those who originally had an Alliance preference it had a 23 per cent effect ; while amongst those who were originally undecided it had a 28 per cent effect — measuring all these effects in terms of the Conservative lead over Labour ( Table 8.14 ) . |
| 22 | The statement called for a 50 per cent reduction , ‘ appropriately applied ’ , in their strategic arsenals , an interim INF agreement and appropriate measures to ‘ prevent an arms race in space ’ . |
| 23 | In March the annual review of CPS and LCD fees resulted in a three per cent increase , slightly more in the CPS case . |
| 24 | In advancing northward from Nebraska to Manitoba during the period , from 1920 to 1980 , the hard red winter wheat adapted to a 20 per cent decrease in mean annual precipitation , a 4.2 °C decrease in the mean annual temperature and a 10-day decrease in the length of the frost-free season . |
| 25 | Whitehall faces the prospect of a new ‘ brain drain' following a 6.5 per cent pay increase for senior civil servants , union leaders said . |
| 26 | The UK has a 7 per cent of this market compared with a 5.5 per cent share of trade in goods . |