Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [art] [adj] per " in BNC.
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| 1 | How , Mellor wondered , would the Lib Dems respond to the unlikely scenario of getting a working majority on a 33 per cent poll ? |
| 2 | In fact it took a series of political blunders on Callaghan 's part to spoil Labour 's chances of being re-elected , faute de mieux , as the responsible and sober ‘ party of government ’ : the seemingly endless postponement of the election while the party 's parliamentary position crumbled , requiring the prop of transparent chicanery ; the unenforceable wishful thinking of the 5 per cent pay limit , the last straw for the unions . |
| 3 | There could be no more revealing insight into the Government 's priorities than their obsessive concentration on the 8.7 per cent . |
| 4 | A planned budget for 1991 estimated at $80,000 million contained provision for a 15.7 per cent rise for the social sector and one of 41.2 per cent for the controversial National Solidarity ( Pronasol ) anti-poverty programme [ see below ] which had a budget of $1,000 million in 1990 . |
| 5 | Mr John Prescott , Labour 's transport spokesman , condemned government transport policies , saying signalling staff cuts were a direct result of the 51 per cent cut in BR finances in the past five years . |
| 6 | The research involves the analysis and development of an extensive data base for all local authority areas in England ; use of longitudinal data from the one per cent sample from 1971/81 Census available through the City University ; locality studies involving interviews with key agencies , institutions and firms supplemented by related desk research ; social survey work on the unemployed ; and ethnographic research on specific groups . |
| 7 | This was in accordance with a 1987 debt restructuring agreement whereby creditor banks agreed to allow the repurchase of up to $500,000,000 of debt obligations , and in 1988 $299,000,000 had been repurchased for $167,000,000 from foreign reserves at a 44 per cent discount . |
| 8 | The commission failed to support French demands for a 30 per cent higher minimum prices for imported fish . |
| 9 | The southern movement of wheat in Texas also involved a significant climatic difference of a 12 per cent decrease in mean annual precipitation , a 1.6 °C higher mean annual temperature and a 10-day increase in the length of the frost-free season . |
| 10 | Defending the increasingly indefensible policy of a 5 per cent pay norm led the government into growing difficulties . |
| 11 | I note that the biggest single beneficiary is Scottish Opera with a 2.3 per cent increase for the coming year ; likewise , Scottish Ballet attracts the same increase . |
| 12 | LASMO remains as operator of this block with a 33.85 per cent interest . |
| 13 | The fisheries council meeting in Brussels decided to take no immediate steps to curb imports and rejected a French demand for a 30 per cent increase on minimum import charges . |
| 14 | This sum is £1.30 ; in Birkenhead only 272 tenants pay less than this sum on a 20 per cent contribution . |
| 15 | The purchase follows Hawker Siddeley 's acquisition earlier this year of a 49 per cent stake in Elco Elettromeccanica , an Italian maker of small electric motors , as part of a plan to strengthen its European presence . |
| 16 | THE chairman of Tate & Lyle , Neil Shaw , received a massive sweetener to his annual salary this year with a 53 per cent increase , taking the amount to £534,000 . |
| 17 | On Nov. 22 Finance Minister Seguel Morel announced that the Central Bank proposed to repurchase $140,000,000 of its foreign debt at a 58.25 per cent discount , costing $81,400,000 . |
| 18 | In 1970 , Labour identification was not necessarily tied to support for the party 's ‘ traditional ’ concerns , or at least the concerns of the left-wing : only 39 per cent of Labour identifiers were in favour of nationalising more industries ; only 40 per cent did not believe that trade unions had too much power ; and although 60 per cent were in favour of spending more on social services this represented a marked decline from the 89 per cent recorded in 1964 ( Crewe et al . , |
| 19 | He may have to change his tune if a swing to the right-wing Republicans shoves his beloved Free Democrats below the 5 per cent mark and so out of the Bundestag in the next elections . |
| 20 | Now called chief executive , Garry Hawkes says that the vast majority of the eight per cent share is with the 1000 managers and the middle management group have over 50 per cent . |
| 21 | I wish to make a simple plea about the 20 per cent . |
| 22 | Lesbian and gay bitterness was the more acute for a sense of betrayal , given the trail-blazing work of the Labour Greater London Council ( GLC ) , subsequent lesbian and gay equality policies by a number of Labour local authorities , and the breakthroughs achieved by the Labour Campaign for Lesbian and Gay Rights — notably the 1985 Labour Annual Conference policy which was reaffirmed at the 1986 Annual Conference by a 79 per cent majority . |
| 23 | The Government has made it clear that it may not use its power of veto , which protects Jaguar from takeover until the end of next year by limiting individual investors to a 15 per cent holding . |
| 24 | Academic staff at the museums will be paid the maximum wages for civil servants plus a fifty per cent supplement . |
| 25 | I give my warmest congratulations to the staff at Ormskirk hospital , which I visited in November 1989 for the turf-cutting for a new £32 million project which was a typical example of the 75 per cent . |
| 26 | The 1990 Broadcasting Act limited newspapers to a 20 per cent stake in TV companies . |
| 27 | The former economics professor conceded that his plan to replace six indirect taxes with a 15 per cent goods and services tax ( GST ) , which he had said was essential to make Australia competitive , had been unpopular . |
| 28 | It seems set to grab a large part of the 15 per cent gap in the EEC 's joint research programme left by the demise of Super-SARA . |
| 29 | About to join a battle royal with Britain and Germany over his ambitious plans for a 30 per cent increase in the EC budget , the last thing Mr Delors wanted was more tales of bogus food exports . |
| 30 | Early explanations of frost weathering alighted on the simple and seemingly obvious effect of the 9 per cent volume expansion which accompanies the phase change from water to ice . |