Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [prep] [art] [adj] per " in BNC.
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| 1 | The remainder of the 78 per cent will be taken up by other allied investors . |
| 2 | The second point will be dealt with by the research , which is likely to give an answer in percentage form anyway , so no harm is done in stating the hypothesis in the 100 per cent form . |
| 3 | But market research , opinion polls and academic ‘ advisors ’ confirmed politicians in their belief that it might contribute to swaying the decision of the 3–4 per cent of ‘ floating ’ electors ; these votes could decide the election . |
| 4 | Managers say that prudent lending and a close knowledge of local people are the reasons for a 34 per cent leap in net profits . |
| 5 | Stockholm : Strong gains by engineer Alfa-Laval helped the index to a 0.06 per cent rise . |
| 6 | As well as competitive asking prices , Fairview offers a choice of cash benefits , including payment of legal fees and stamp duty , and the payment of a five per cent deposit or free management charges for a year . |
| 7 | Abulfez Elchibey , leader of the Azerbaijani Popular Front , was sworn in as President on June 16 , after receiving 59.4 per cent of the vote in a 76 per cent turnout in elections on June 7 ; there were five candidates in all . |
| 8 | The voluntary agreement commits the industry to a 50 per cent . |
| 9 | People aged 65 and over will also be covered by the restriction of the MCA to the 20 per cent tax rate . |
| 10 | In the light of the 86 per cent . |
| 11 | The consortium described the agreement as " a back-handed deal " which did nothing to secure the future of the 2 per cent of lowland bogs which survive in England in a semi-natural state with rare plants and animals . |
| 12 | The hard campaigning continued and two years later , in 1985 , 21 countries signed the Helsinki Protocol , a legally binding agreement equivalent to the demands of the Thirty Per Cent Club . |
| 13 | It was decided instead to adopt less strict targets for these areas and to tighten the target for the rest of the continent to a 60 per cent gap reduction . |
| 14 | The effect of the 25 per cent reduction in fares would be to place an inordinate burden on the ratepayers , particularly because this would be accompanied by a known loss of rate support grant . |
| 15 | Miners ' leaders attending a special conference of the National Union of Mineworkers in Sheffield yesterday backed away from a strike over the imposition of a 7.6 per cent pay rise by British Coal , when they realised there would be little support from members . |
| 16 | Government economists predicted that the economy would experience a slight dampening in overall performance during fiscal 1989 ( partly due to the imposition of the 3 per cent GCT ) and forecast a GDP growth rate of about 4.5 per cent . |
| 17 | This would be an inappropriate measure for most purposes as most of the effects of a 10 per cent inflation rate ( discussed later in this chapter ) would still apply . |
| 18 | Meanwhile some 2,600,000 people in the central and southern provinces were suffering from the effects of a 60 per cent fall in agricultural production attributed to drought and conflict . |
| 19 | Public-service workers in such unions as NUPE and NALGO objected to the effects of the 5 per cent pay norm on low-paid workers , and on 22 January a national strike of 24 hours was declared by public-service workers . |
| 20 | Secondly , both houses sitting jointly as a " congress " in Versailles would have to approve the revision by a 60 per cent majority . |
| 21 | By leasing he could not only spread the payments , but either enjoy for himself the benefit of a 100 per cent tax write-off on the asset of the plane in the first year , or come to some arrangement with a financier , who would build the tax deduction into the price . |
| 22 | The Court of Appeal laid down some rough guidelines in Froom v Butcher [ 1976 ] QB 286 when it decided that the defendant who succeeded in establishing that a plaintiff 's injuries could have been avoided by wearing a seat belt would have the benefit of a 25 per cent reduction in the plaintiff 's damages , even though the plaintiff was otherwise an innocent party . |
| 23 | The remaining employers , during the negotiations which followed the mass meeting of 31 August and the threat of a strike , were still sticking at a compromise formula , one which Amelia McLean , putting the women 's case in The Vote , said she was prepared to accept , viz : a five-year ban on women entrants from 1 January 1911 , and the establishment of a 50 per cent distribution of Monotype keyboards between men and women . |
| 24 | It included the introduction of new taxes , the raising of charges for fuel and power , the maintenance of petrol prices at a high level ( despite the unrest caused by recent increases — see p. 37919 ) , and the establishment of a 9 per cent duty on imports , which last was expected to raise over $700,000,000 annually . |
| 25 | In some senses this transfer is sufficient in that the SEA was accepted on the basis of the 100 per cent increase in Structural Funds designed to ease adjustment . |
| 26 | Also , for the purposes of the 75 per cent vote , there are disregarded shares held by any person whom the court regards as a promoter of the scheme . |
| 27 | The potential profits of the buyers of the 60 per cent of Entel to be sold off would be reduced by being based on the purchase price of $1,900 million and not on the $3,500 million net asset value as fixed by the government . |
| 28 | The policyholders ' rights enshrined in the voting trust will remain intact until Aegon increases its take in the plc to the 80 per cent mark . |
| 29 | Food output increased considerably from 1700 to 1800 , accommodating the needs of a 60 per cent rise in population with , in most years , a small surplus to export . |
| 30 | News of the agreement and the announcement of a 34 per cent increase to A$183 million in net profits for the six months to the end of December 1990 helped the share value to recover to stand at A$7.26 on Feb. 14 . |