Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] [adj] [adj] per " in BNC.
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| 1 | This bulletin contains items about what happened to some of the other 1 per cent . ’ |
| 2 | I am concerned about what on earth is wrong with the other 14 per cent . |
| 3 | of the economy and I never understand why the Labour party is not interested in the other 80 per cent . |
| 4 | The OECD 's bi-annual economic report Outlook , released on Dec. 19 , set growth in industrialized nations in the second half of 1991 at a mere 1 per cent annual rate ; in July the OECD had forecast a 2.4 per cent annual growth for this period . |
| 5 | If the poll tax really became a tax on voting , was it non-registering residents , rather than any enthusiasm for Major or Lang , that pushed the Tory percentage in Scotland up from a poll average of about 21 to an actual 25.5 per cent , and proportionately diminished the impact of the Labour and SNP campaigns ? |
| 6 | The increase in the number of very old people over 85 is up from 1.03 per cent of the population in 1981 to an estimated 1.9 per cent in 2001 ( Phillipson and Walker , 1986 , p. 5 ) . |
| 7 | Acknowledging the downward spiral caused by the most severe global recession since the Second World War , the report predicted that world economic growth would rise from 1.5 per cent in 1992 to a mere 3 per cent in 1993 . |
| 8 | The VAT row gathered pace when the Treasury , after a series of Commons exchanges , confirmed that more than five million pensioners and others on low income will not be compensated in full for the planned 17.5 per cent rise in domestic fuel bills in 1995 . |
| 9 | Falling short of the necessary 75 per cent vote to approve the changes , the vote was 54 per cent in favour and 44 per cent against . |
| 10 | The first round on March 24 had failed to produce a winner because the turnout had fallen well short of the required 50 per cent , but in the second round the required 25 per cent turnout was just exceeded . |
| 11 | Due to an anticipated 50 per cent fall in natural gas sales to Argentina , however , fuel prices would rise 43 per cent , making it likely that inflation would exceed the planned 10 per cent for 1992 . |
| 12 | The major achievement that could be claimed by March 1983 — a notable one indeed — was that inflation had fallen from a peak of 22 per cent in early 1980 to a mere 5 per cent . |
| 13 | in 1961 to a massive 62 per cent . |
| 14 | Turner 's Mercury and Herse suffered a similar fate , dragging down the sale 's total to £1.2 million with a punishing 42 per cent bought in by value . |
| 15 | Investment in sectors including infrastructure electricity and oil was to rise by 14.4 per cent , to be made possible by a foreseen 13.4 per cent increase in public revenues . |
| 16 | The budget for the 1989/90 financial year which began on July 1 , 1989 , included a planned 4.4 per cent increase in expenditure to KD3,549,100,000 , made possible by an expected 8.6 per cent rise in revenues to KD2,230,500,000 . |
| 17 | Statistics show that three out of four carers are women — and most of the remaining twenty-five per cent who are men are caring for a wife rather than a parent . |