Example sentences of "[prep] [art] 50 per " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 0 coefficients vary between 0.44 and 0.67 for the 50 per cent pass mark and between 0.44 and 0.74 for the 70 per cent pass mark . |
| 2 | The new pension arrangements will need to be established for the 50 per cent . |
| 3 | I 've wondered whether we ought to separate but every time I bring this up , he cries and then worries about the 50 per cent of ‘ his ’ assets I 'll take with me if I do decide to go ! |
| 4 | This is obviously a gross distortion of the 50 per cent ratio that we expect . |
| 5 | We are not in the business of putting on the backs of the poor the cost of the 50 per cent . |
| 6 | In the event , however , only 13.8 percent of the electorate voted , well short of the 50 per cent required ; of those who voted , 85.9 per cent favoured direct election and 14.1 indirect election . |
| 7 | In the presidential elections the incumbent José Eduardo dos Santos of the MPLA-PT won 49.57 per cent of the vote , just short of the 50 per cent needed to avoid a second round . |
| 8 | For the sake of the 50 per cent who have resisted the urge to cheat , the fight against drugs in sport must get its act together . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Suppose the firm 's income consists of a 50 per cent chance of £2000 and a 50 per cent chance of nothing . |
| 11 | Debt renegotiation talks during 1989 failed to achieve Venezuela 's target , proposed in July , of a 50 per cent cut in debt-service payments , and negotiations continued on the basis of a proposed 42 per cent reduction in payments for 1990 and a proposal by creditor banks to reschedule $21,200 million of debt over 17 years . |
| 12 | They were to be abolished as part of a 50 per cent reduction in the armed forces . |
| 13 | The introduction of strong energy efficiency measures could constrain consumption growth to about 28 per cent by 2020 , despite a 50 per cent increase in world population . |
| 14 | Then spiral the bandage , aiming for a 50 per cent overlap |
| 15 | There was no increase in the licence fee to pay for a 50 per cent jump in programme hours . |
| 16 | The statement called for a 50 per cent reduction , ‘ appropriately applied ’ , in their strategic arsenals , an interim INF agreement and appropriate measures to ‘ prevent an arms race in space ’ . |
| 17 | All these undertakings are companies , and hereafter are identified as such , except for a 50 per cent interest in a general partnership [ Unimar Company ] which is consolidated on a proportionate basis . |
| 18 | The hon. Gentleman represents a party that has called for a 50 per cent . |
| 19 | Part K , adopted by 134 votes to none with 18 abstentions ( the 16 members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization — NATO — Japan and Israel ) urged the United States and the Soviet Union to conclude a treaty for a 50 per cent reduction in strategic nuclear weapons . |
| 20 | The principal demands were for a 50 per cent increase in wages and pensions , a six-hour working day ( and no night-shifts ) for women , and the bringing to justice of those responsible for the deaths in Shkodër in April [ see p. 38160 ] . |
| 21 | News broke in late June about a 50 per cent reduction in Japanese duty on imported spirits . |
| 22 | But the company has an opportunity to make other gains through a 50 per cent stake it has secured with BP in five surrounding blocks where an intensive exploration programme will begin later this year in an attempt to discover other ‘ elephant ’ fields . |
| 23 | The government subsequently altered its estimate of those able to claim and came up with a 50 per cent take-up rate . |
| 24 | The government subsequently altered its estimate of those able to claim and came up with a 50 per cent take-up rate . |
| 25 | The government subsequently altered its estimate of those able to claim and came up with a 50 per cent take-up rate . |
| 26 | Consider for example the proposition that the average human possesses one breast and one testicle , a grievous misapplication of statistics no doubt , but less of an affront to logic than the argument of the weather forecaster , seized on by John Allen Paulos : with a 50 per cent chance of rain on Saturday and a 50 per cent chance on Sunday , he declared , ‘ it looks like a 100 per cent chance of rain this weekend ’ . |
| 27 | The ministries of Health and Social Security , Peasant and Agricultural Affairs and Education would be particularly affected , with a 50 per cent cut . |
| 28 | So much so , that it has fallen from the 50 per cent standard of the 1930s , to less than 15 per cent in the late 1970s — which is no better , and in some areas far worse , than the standard already achieved before the First World War when the Probation Act of 1907 had hardly consolidated itself . |
| 29 | Its bid for 1992–3 was late , so it did n't benefit from the 50 per cent increase , and there is great pressure to meet the standards required for grant status . |
| 30 | This was due in part to the 50 per cent fall in coffee prices after the breakdown in talks at a meeting of the International Coffee Organization ( ICO ) in July 1989 [ see p. 36836 ] . |