Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] a [adj] [no cls] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | The introduction on Oct. 22 of a 10 per cent general consumption tax ( GCT ) provoked widespread criticism from the political opposition and scepticism from the business community . |
| 2 | Does the Chancellor agree that our abysmal economic growth performance since the Government took office in 1979 is due largely to the dismal performance of British manufacturing industry , and that the forecast for the year 1991 of a 15 per cent . |
| 3 | At Helsinki in 1985 , the ‘ 30 per cent Club ’ became official with a 30 per cent Sulphur Protocol to the Convention . |
| 4 | I am grateful for my hon. Friend 's second point , because it is not yet widely understood by the three quarters of people who go into retirement with savings of their own that , as they approach retirement , their ability to build up those savings would be subject to a 9 per cent . |
| 5 | ‘ We 're comfortable with a 30 per cent position in Hong Kong , ’ Mr MacLeod said . |
| 6 | Pendle , the Lancashire marginal where the poll tax was a major issue in the campaign , fell to Labour with a five per cent swing . |
| 7 | In view of the CBI 's projected figure for 1992 of a 4.4 per cent . |
| 8 | The workers at Hawick , Galashiels , Earlston , Berwick and Arbroath voted 732 to 670 against a 4 per cent pay rise plus an extra day 's holiday by 732 votes to 670 . |
| 9 | In response to government options presented to them , the banks agreed to ( i ) exchange US$6,600 million of old debt for new 30-year government bonds carrying a fixed interest rate of 6.75 per cent underwritten by the United States Treasury ; ( ii ) repurchase $1,500 million of debt instead of the $7,000 million the government had requested ; ( iii ) provide $5,700 million in fresh loans for investment in development ; ( iv ) the exchange of old debt for new government bonds offering temporary reductions in interest rates on $2,500 million ; ( v ) new bonds offering $1,630 million equal to a 30 per cent reduction in principal . |
| 10 | Banking stoppages begun in February resulted in agreement on April 4 on a 5.4 per cent pay increase , backdated to Feb. 1 and applicable for 13 months , plus a one-off payment of DM |
| 11 | Today , weeds are responsible for a 12 per cent reduction in the world 's harvests . |
| 12 | The population of England and Wales was undergoing a further massive increase — nothing short of a fifty per cent rise in the years from 1801 to 1831 — and the effects of the recent Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions hardly needed a post-war depression to make matters even worse for the poor . |
| 13 | The announcement on Oct. 3 of a 28 per cent devaluation of the local currency , the ouguiya , against the dollar was met by rioting in Nouakchott as local merchants increased food prices by 40 per cent ( US$1.00=105.852 ouguiya as at Oct. 19 , 1992 ) . |
| 14 | Is it not an appalling indictment of 13 years of this Government 's economic policy that yesterday one of Her Majesty 's coroners described the shortage of beds in one of Britain 's principal hospitals — a shortage that has led to the death of a pensioner from Southwark — as appalling due to a 2 per cent . |
| 15 | Most critically , the island 's main export crop , sugar , was expected to total only 5,500,000 tonnes in 1992 , compared with 7,600,000 tonnes in 1991 , due to a 30 per cent drop in fuel supplies since 1990 . |
| 16 | North of the Border , Barratt Construction held its own with a 5 per cent margin on turnover of £20 million , despite ‘ very difficult conditions ’ for UK contracting . |
| 17 | Buy a dozen of each at a 10 per cent discount . |
| 18 | By the end of the day the raid was complete ; Tiphook had paid £7.7 million for a 9.9 per cent slice of its main competitor . |
| 19 | New owners , who bought Wentworth for an almost " give-away " £17 million , instructed a Japanese firm to raise £32 million for a 40 per cent equity , and investors were targeted in Japan , Hong Kong and Sweden . |
| 20 | If you decided that you 're really only interested in long priced horses because you wanted win a large sum of money , so you only started looking at horses that were offered at fifty to one or longer odds than that , then if you look at the statistics then you 'll find that the rate of return on such bets is even lower than the rate of return that we 've quoted on football pools , but on the other hand if you look at horses which are offered , say , at odds-on or at very low odds , evens , two to one and things like that , then the rate of return is pretty close to a hundred per cent of your money . |
| 21 | Those resources are equivalent to a 44 per cent . |
| 22 | At that price an annual payment of £10 would be equivalent to a 20 per cent rate of interest . |
| 23 | [ For internal convertibility of the koruna resulting in a 14.3 per cent devaluation see p. 37974 . ] |
| 24 | We do operate a customer loyalty scheme , whereby any existing borrower who moves home and remortgages with us is entitled to a one per cent discount for one year . ’ |
| 25 | ALL employees and pensioners are now entitled to a 10 per cent discount on accommodation bookings , and a 5 per cent discount on conference bookings at world-wide , thanks to a Gold Crown Card agreement made by . |
| 26 | These were entitled to a 10 per cent preferential dividend and to participate with the ordinary shares equally in the surplus . |
| 27 | Does the right hon. Gentleman think it right that under the Tory council tax every millionaire who lives alone will be entitled to a 25 per cent . |
| 28 | Another practical consideration is the cost of art materials , and AOI members are automatically entitled to a ten per cent discount at one of their nationwide discount stores on production of their membership card . |