Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [num] per [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In September 1992 , polls in Norway indicated a 49 to 35 per cent majority against membership . |
| 2 | Oil slicks in Alaska and elsewhere helped Vikoma , the group 's environmental cleaning equipment manufacturer , which specialises in separating oil from water , and although Salvesen brick , is suffering in the second half from a 30 to 40 per cent cut in demand as housebuilding nosedives , the first half was prosperous and full year trading profit should be on a level with 1988 , says finance director Brian Fidler . |
| 3 | Growth was forecast at 3 per cent ( compared with 2 to 2.5 per cent forecast for 1992 ) ; inflation at an annualized rate of between 5 and 7 per cent ( compared with 9 per cent in 1992 ) ; and privatization receipts at Esc225,000 million . |
| 4 | The DES ( 1984b ) reports some work to identify a link between the proportion entering higher education of those qualified ( QPI ) and unemployment , and conclude from some aggregate level analyses that if these results are valid they imply that much of 2.1 per cent rise in QPI in 1981/82 could be attributed to the total increase in unemployment — from 1.8 million to 2.7 million between July , 1980 and July , 1981 . |
| 5 | The Chancellor , Norman Lamont , told the Commons on Tuesday that the current zero rating would be swept aside from April next year , when domestic fuel and power would be subject to 8 per cent VAT , with the full 17.5 per cent applied from April 1995 . |
| 6 | Offers of loans at 10 to 14 per cent interest to nobility , gentry , merchants with incomes for life , persons of known properties , heirs apparent to large estates ( if not minors ) and ladies of character , in The Times of 8 June 1792 . |
| 7 | We do n't anticipate the same rate of increase that we saw last year , but we 'd be expecting probably somewhere in the region of a 10 to 15 per cent increase over the coming year . |
| 8 | However , if you really hanker for a return to the glory days of kit design , look no further to the glory days of kit design , look no further than Arkwright , the Leeds-based company who reproduce classic old designs from the Fifties to the Seventies in 100 per cent cotton . |
| 9 | Between 1932 and 1939 when the bank rate was 2 per cent , a building society 's advance was normally around 80 per cent of the value of the house spread over fifteen to twenty years at 4 to 6 per cent interest . |
| 10 | Drilling carried out to prove an underlying granite cusp at shallow ( < 500 m ) depth was unsuccessful and some of the higher grade intersections of vein mineralisation , up to 11 m at 1 per cent Sn , contained refractory tin silicates ( MRP 48 ; MEG 73 and 198 ) . |
| 11 | However admirable may be the aim of the Urban Safety Project — ten to fifteen per cent reduction in accidents — the limited scope of these schemes can not be ignored . |
| 12 | Almost every high street building society and bank is offering fixed-rate deals in the ten to eleven per cent band ( the APR is slightly higher ) which offer borrowers anything from five years to 25 years of stability . |
| 13 | A further ten to 15 per cent reduction on many half-price sale items during the first three days . |
| 14 | Town says that , of Britain 's 100 most prescribed drugs , he can buy 67 abroad , sell them for 20 per cent less than the NHS price , and still make anything from 3 to 300 per cent profit . |
| 15 | Robert McNamara 's measure for ‘ assured destruction ’ – 20 to 33 per cent loss of population , 50 to 70 per cent loss of industry — stand in some contrast to the USSR 's wartime losses — 12 to 15 per cent loss of population and 50 per cent loss of production — particularly when we consider the time over which these losses took place . |
| 16 | Memories of Loma Prieta are not the only incentive ; the US Geological Survey a 50 to 60 per cent chance of a major quake in California in the next 30 years that will cost $50 billion in property losses alone . |
| 17 | A big quake east of the Rocky Mountains — and one greater than magnitude 6 has a 50 to 60 per cent chance of occurring in the next 25 years — could make California 's Loma Prieta seem trifling . |
| 18 | A threat to health also arose because the fires burned with only 70 to 90 per cent efficiency , which meant that polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons ( PAHs ) were created as tiny particles in the smoke ; these substances include dozens of known and suspected human carcinogens . |
| 19 | ‘ I never dreamed I would be here when I was lying in bed getting the chemotherapy with a five to ten per cent chance of survival . |
| 20 | You could either buy a lot of 10V , 5 per cent Zeners and sort out one with the right voltage ( up to 10.5V is possible at 5 per cent tolerance ) , or you could use a 9.1V Zener in series with two high-current silicon rectifiers , which will drop about 0.5V each . |
| 21 | From there comes a wine with hairs on its chest , a Shiraz from the 1985 vintage described by Rex as ‘ a big , strong red , 14 to 15 per cent alcohol . ’ |
| 22 | For example , our hypothetical Phillips curve shows that a 4 per cent per annum wage increase ( equivalent to 2 per cent inflation with a 2 per cent productivity growth ) is associated with a 3 per cent unemployment rate , and that a 9 per cent annum wage increase ( equivalent to 7 per cent inflation ) is associated with a 2 per cent unemployment rate . |
| 23 | For example , our hypothetical Phillips curve shows that a 4 per cent per annum wage increase ( equivalent to 2 per cent inflation with a 2 per cent productivity growth ) is associated with a 3 per cent unemployment rate , and that a 9 per cent annum wage increase ( equivalent to 7 per cent inflation ) is associated with a 2 per cent unemployment rate . |
| 24 | Given the 98 to 100 per cent support from dairy farmers it is looking for , that would mean it still bought virtually all the milk in its area while processing and selling much of it through its commercial company Scottish Pride . |
| 25 | The union affirmed its opposition to 100 per cent coursework and support for a 20 to 70 per cent limit . |
| 26 | If history is any guide , the Bank of England could force overnight money rates up into the 20 to 30 per cent range and ram home the message with aggressive buying of pounds . |
| 27 | Reductions by better control may offer a further 20 to 30 per cent improvement in consumption . |