Example sentences of "[prep] [art] 20 per " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problems appear critical for the 20 per cent of the Merseyside population living in the poorest council housing and especially in the district of Knowsley where 48 per cent of the population ( six times the national average ) live in such areas . |
| 2 | There is nothing cruel or stupid about providing a benefit system which more than compensates for the 20 per cent . |
| 3 | He was the accomplice of those who pushed for the 20 per cent . |
| 4 | I wish to make a simple plea about the 20 per cent . |
| 5 | The AGRs have also enabled the nuclear component of electricity production in the United Kingdom ( including Scotland ) to push through the 20 per cent barrier . |
| 6 | You are more likely to be amongst the 35 per cent who only have one preference , or the 24 per cent who have two preferences , of the 20 per cent who have three preferences . |
| 7 | The notification requirement applies at certain threshold levels , namely 10 per cent , 20 per cent , one-third , 50 per cent and two-thirds , although member states are given the option to have different thresholds in certain cases ( for example a 25 per cent threshold instead of the 20 per cent and one-third thresholds ) . |
| 8 | fall in manufacturing investment , and of the 20 per cent . |
| 9 | Many of us will welcome the end of the 20 per cent . |
| 10 | The hon. Gentleman can get rid of the 20 per cent . |
| 11 | The Government have been most mean in not getting rid of the 20 per cent . |
| 12 | My hon. Friend the Member for Leyton made a passionate case for getting rid of the 20 per cent . |
| 13 | He , too , sought the end of the 20 per cent . |
| 14 | The House will also recall — I know that hon. Members of all parties will welcome this — that I have also made it clear that there will be no downward adjustment in 1993 in income-related benefit rates to correspond to the nearly £700 million which , in terms of 1992-93 benefit rates , is included in them in respect of the 20 per cent . |
| 15 | He claimed the majority of taxpayers would be £1.50 a month worse off as any gains from the widening of the 20 per cent tax band would be lost by the freeze on general allowances . |
| 16 | If the widening of the 20 per cent lower income tax band to £3,000 in 1993/94 is taken into account ( which will be worth a further £25 a year to all basic and higher rate taxpayers ) , then the net effect of this and the change in the MCA on a married man aged under 65 who pays tax at the basic rate of 25 per cent will be an increase in tax of £1.17 a week or about £61 a year . |
| 17 | One ‘ sweetener ’ , deliberately leaked beforehand , is likely to be the widening of the 20 per cent income tax , which currently applies only to the first £2,000 of taxable income . |
| 18 | It was they who caused a reluctant minister to accept , in 1963 , the introduction of an examination at 15 + other than O level ( the CSE examination ) specifically designed for the next 40 per cent of the ability range below the 20 per cent for whom 0 level was thought to be appropriate . |
| 19 | The Electricity Council told the Energy Committee that it would be possible to meet the Toronto Conference target of a 20 per cent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions by 2005 . |
| 20 | We are beneficiaries to the extent of a 20 per cent . |
| 21 | Thousands are still facing the burden of a 20 per cent . |
| 22 | Tariff barriers on basic grains were to be eliminated across the region by the end of the year , and duties on all agricultural produce by June 1992 ; duties on most other products should be held below a 20 per cent ceiling from the beginning of 1993 . |
| 23 | The most serious industrial disruption was a strike by 1,700 miners in Morocco 's largest coalfield at Jerada , 450 km east of Rabat , which began in mid-December 1988 with demands for a 20 per cent wage increase . |
| 24 | The call " for a 20 per cent reduction in emissions by 2005 , rather than stabilisation at 1990 levels in 2000 , to which the EC is committed " forms part of a list of 55 environmental measures which the group is calling for the community to implement . |
| 25 | contribution , so they can do away with the 20 per cent . |
| 26 | He maintained that the rule was an essential concomitant of the poll tax because it was a personal tax , yet we are told that in respect of the council tax , which is also , at least as to 50 per cent. , a personal tax , there is no difficulty in doing away with the 20 per cent . |
| 27 | That , together with the 20 per cent or so the socialists were hoping to pick up , plus a few more votes taken from the Communists and the Centrists , could have made a respectably sized movement . |
| 28 | Some claim that the spur came from a desire to raise the local content above the 20 per cent achieved by the multinationals ' assembly plants . |
| 29 | With hyper-inflation , BR started the year with a 20 per cent fares increase — despite furious cost-cutting . |
| 30 | Sony is the hi-fi market leader , with a 20 per cent share , followed by Pioneer , JVC and Aiwa . |