Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj] per " in BNC.
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| 1 | On April 9 , 1991 , Michelin , the world 's largest tyre company , announced that it would be cutting its French workforce by 4,900 by the end of 1992 as part of a 15 per cent overall reduction in its 130,000-strong world-wide workforce , which would also result in job losses of 2,230 in the United States , 2,000 in Spain , and 800 in the United Kingdom . |
| 2 | They were to be abolished as part of a 50 per cent reduction in the armed forces . |
| 3 | Barro obtains a value of 1.4 for his test statistic , which is less than the critical value under the F distribution with 3 and 19 degrees of freedom at the 5 per cent significance level . |
| 4 | Last week the firm said it hoped to agree a sale of part of the 61 per cent stake owned by American Express as part of a deal to inject new equity into the firm . |
| 5 | There followed three nights of violence in the 80 per cent black area of Crown Heights , during which cars and barricades were burnt , shops looted , and running battles fought between youths and police . |
| 6 | March 31 : in a referendum held in Georgia 99 per cent voted in favour of independence in a 90 per cent turnout , and on April 9 Georgia proclaimed its independence . |
| 7 | According to the Guardian of July 30 , the economic reform package approved by the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and introduced on Jan. 1 , 1990 [ see p. 37130 ] , produced the following results in the first six months : a reduction of inflation from a monthly rate of 80 per cent in January to 3.4 per cent in June ; the transformation of a budget deficit equivalent to 8 per cent of GDP into a 6-7 per cent surplus ; and the stabilization of the zloty at 9,500 against the dollar . |
| 8 | He told ugly old women they would meet handsome young men soon , he told handsome young men they would meet large sums of money soon , he told dimwitted mothers that their sons would n't be coming home in nice wooden boxes from theatres of war with a 99 per cent casualty rate , he told collectors where they could locate that elusive antique backscratcher needed to complete a set . |
| 9 | The IMF had in late June 1989 approved a drawing of 9,180,000 special drawing rights ( approximately USdollars 11,460,000 ) under the second annual structural adjustment programme ( ie part of a three-year plan agreed with the IMF in October 1987 ) , with objectives including tax reform , reform of the cotton sector , liberalization of price controls and foreign trade , reduction of the balance-of-payments deficit ( currently some USdollars 64,000,000 ) , the control of inflation within a 5 per cent ceiling , and boosting of real economic growth to 3 per cent . |
| 10 | First , any small party could link its lists , for the purposes of calculation of the 5 per cent rule , to the lists of a larger party , provided those two parties had not competed against each other in any Land ( the " piggyback " procedure ) . |
| 11 | This was due in part to the 50 per cent fall in coffee prices after the breakdown in talks at a meeting of the International Coffee Organization ( ICO ) in July 1989 [ see p. 36836 ] . |
| 12 | Gaviria announced on Feb. 12 that a special tax would be levied on oil , coal , gas and nickel exports and on international telephone calls , in addition to a 5 per cent surcharge on income and other taxes ( from which low earners were to be exempt ) , in order to raise 50,000,000 pesos to establish special mobile brigades to combat the guerrillas and protect the country 's infrastructure . |
| 13 | In addition to the 20 per cent out of work , contract and part-time employment has tripled in the past five years . |
| 14 | cut in the youth training budget for this year , which is in addition to the 12 per cent . |
| 15 | Germany 's 2.3 million public service workers are heading for their first strike for 18 years in support of a 5.4 per cent pay rise recommended by arbitrators but rejected by the government . |
| 16 | The Directorate of Public Service Management dismissed an estimated 12,000 strikers on Nov. 6 , after some 60,000 to 70,000 government and public-sector workers had taken industrial action in support of a 154 per cent wage rise , originally agreed between the National Amalgamated Union and the government , but which government officials now said could not be met in view of the budget deficit . |
| 17 | Members of the secondary school teachers ' union ( LOME ) went on strike in July 1990 in support of a 15 per cent salary increase and improved training and conditions [ see also September 1990 strikes and July austerity measures p. 37721 ] . |
| 18 | The shares were sold on to Canadian pension funds , but in February Lockwood retrieved them with backing from 3i , in return for a 30 per cent stake . |
| 19 | Above all else , Baker understood the essential role of compromise in executive-legislative relations and it was the LSG that prevailed upon Reagan to give ground on the tax cut by accepting reductions of 5 per cent — 10 per cent — 10 per cent in three successive years in place of the 10 per cent — 10 per cent — 10 per cent of Kemp-Roth . |
| 20 | This achieved a 12 per cent reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide and completely eliminated emissions of sulphur dioxide , in site of a 23 per cent increase in energy consumption due to production expansion . |
| 21 | This surplus amounted to no more than 73 per cent of debt service and remittance payments ; and in spite of a 57 per cent increase in the volume of exports since 1980 , poor prices meant that the value of such exports represented a mere 24 per cent increase over the decade . |
| 22 | In spite of a 16 per cent rise in Hydro 's oil production to a record high , selling prices slipped over the year from $20 to $19 a barrel . |
| 23 | The conference agreed to adopt a set of compromise proposals which would involve a commitment by each donor country to increase its ODA to LDCs , but it refrained from setting an overall target in excess of the 0.15 per cent agreed upon in 1981 . |
| 24 | The House will also recall — I know that hon. Members of all parties will welcome this — that I have also made it clear that there will be no downward adjustment in 1993 in income-related benefit rates to correspond to the nearly £700 million which , in terms of 1992-93 benefit rates , is included in them in respect of the 20 per cent . |
| 25 | On July 23 , representatives of Zambia 's creditor countries , meeting in Paris , agreed in outline on a 50 per cent debt reduction scheme , the details of which were yet to be decided . |
| 26 | The pensioner movement is only growing very slowly in Britain and it is hard to imagine the prosperous 20 per cent of pensioners feeling they had much in common with the 40 per cent who are completely dependent on state benefits . |
| 27 | The employers on Friday increased their offer of 7.6 per cent and one extra day 's holiday , in answer to a 10 per cent demand with two extra days now . |
| 28 | The decline is generally in line with the 60 per cent fall in world salmon catches . |
| 29 | Leaders of ambulance crews argue that their industrial action , in protest at a 6.5 per cent pay offer , has exposed the lack of personnel which may have been responsible for the deaths . |
| 30 | That , Mr Sampson said , gave rise for concern with a 15.7 per cent increase during the year , which compares with a 14 per cent rise for Scotland as a whole . |