Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [prep] [art] [adj] per " in BNC.
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| 1 | On April 9 , 1991 , Michelin , the world 's largest tyre company , announced that it would be cutting its French workforce by 4,900 by the end of 1992 as part of a 15 per cent overall reduction in its 130,000-strong world-wide workforce , which would also result in job losses of 2,230 in the United States , 2,000 in Spain , and 800 in the United Kingdom . |
| 2 | They were to be abolished as part of a 50 per cent reduction in the armed forces . |
| 3 | Barro obtains a value of 1.4 for his test statistic , which is less than the critical value under the F distribution with 3 and 19 degrees of freedom at the 5 per cent significance level . |
| 4 | Last week the firm said it hoped to agree a sale of part of the 61 per cent stake owned by American Express as part of a deal to inject new equity into the firm . |
| 5 | Oil and petroleum workers threatened industrial action in support of demands for a 310 per cent salary adjustment , for an end to plans to privatize the state oil company PETROBRAS , and the reinstatement of 800 colleagues dismissed in government cutbacks . |
| 6 | There followed three nights of violence in the 80 per cent black area of Crown Heights , during which cars and barricades were burnt , shops looted , and running battles fought between youths and police . |
| 7 | Switches can always be made although a charge of £10 plus a 1 per cent bid/offer spread would be payable . |
| 8 | March 31 : in a referendum held in Georgia 99 per cent voted in favour of independence in a 90 per cent turnout , and on April 9 Georgia proclaimed its independence . |
| 9 | According to the Guardian of July 30 , the economic reform package approved by the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and introduced on Jan. 1 , 1990 [ see p. 37130 ] , produced the following results in the first six months : a reduction of inflation from a monthly rate of 80 per cent in January to 3.4 per cent in June ; the transformation of a budget deficit equivalent to 8 per cent of GDP into a 6-7 per cent surplus ; and the stabilization of the zloty at 9,500 against the dollar . |
| 10 | He told ugly old women they would meet handsome young men soon , he told handsome young men they would meet large sums of money soon , he told dimwitted mothers that their sons would n't be coming home in nice wooden boxes from theatres of war with a 99 per cent casualty rate , he told collectors where they could locate that elusive antique backscratcher needed to complete a set . |
| 11 | The IMF had in late June 1989 approved a drawing of 9,180,000 special drawing rights ( approximately USdollars 11,460,000 ) under the second annual structural adjustment programme ( ie part of a three-year plan agreed with the IMF in October 1987 ) , with objectives including tax reform , reform of the cotton sector , liberalization of price controls and foreign trade , reduction of the balance-of-payments deficit ( currently some USdollars 64,000,000 ) , the control of inflation within a 5 per cent ceiling , and boosting of real economic growth to 3 per cent . |
| 12 | Holders of less than £500 formed around 21 per cent of the total number of accounts in both Bank and East India stock , 38 per cent of holders of the 4 per cent stock and more than half of the holders of South Sea stock , but in all four cases this group held less than 10 per cent of the total stock . |
| 13 | The 1990 plan called for a convertible currency trade surplus of $700,000,000 through a 7-8 per cent increase in exports . |
| 14 | Since the second amendment to the articles of agreement the structure of the Fund has been defined as consisting not only of a board of governors , an executive board , and a managing director and staff , but also a council if it is called into being by a decision of the board of governors with an 85 per cent majority of total voting power . |
| 15 | First , any small party could link its lists , for the purposes of calculation of the 5 per cent rule , to the lists of a larger party , provided those two parties had not competed against each other in any Land ( the " piggyback " procedure ) . |
| 16 | Affecting the coal , oil , gas , petrochemical and metallurgical industries and the railways , it featured a package of incentives including a 5 per cent pay rise for workers for each percentage point by which monthly output in their enterprise exceeded average output in January-April 1991 , and the right of enterprises to sell for their own profit 10 per cent of their output on the domestic market . |
| 17 | Well , in the in the question of I M R O as far as it 's erm occupational pension scheme members are concerned , er there 's no there 's no compensation responsibility and I think that that means that you get no , no whistle blowing and in I mean there 's , we 've got , I mean one of the points that we , we heard of just last evening was that one of the of the banks involved ended up er in its arrangements with Maxwell of asking for a hundred and sixty per cent of shares for every hundred per cent of loans that it made to Maxwell . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ] . |
| 20 | Gaviria announced on Feb. 12 that a special tax would be levied on oil , coal , gas and nickel exports and on international telephone calls , in addition to a 5 per cent surcharge on income and other taxes ( from which low earners were to be exempt ) , in order to raise 50,000,000 pesos to establish special mobile brigades to combat the guerrillas and protect the country 's infrastructure . |
| 21 | In addition to the 20 per cent out of work , contract and part-time employment has tripled in the past five years . |
| 22 | cut in the youth training budget for this year , which is in addition to the 12 per cent . |
| 23 | Germany 's 2.3 million public service workers are heading for their first strike for 18 years in support of a 5.4 per cent pay rise recommended by arbitrators but rejected by the government . |
| 24 | The Directorate of Public Service Management dismissed an estimated 12,000 strikers on Nov. 6 , after some 60,000 to 70,000 government and public-sector workers had taken industrial action in support of a 154 per cent wage rise , originally agreed between the National Amalgamated Union and the government , but which government officials now said could not be met in view of the budget deficit . |
| 25 | Members of the secondary school teachers ' union ( LOME ) went on strike in July 1990 in support of a 15 per cent salary increase and improved training and conditions [ see also September 1990 strikes and July austerity measures p. 37721 ] . |
| 26 | The shares were sold on to Canadian pension funds , but in February Lockwood retrieved them with backing from 3i , in return for a 30 per cent stake . |
| 27 | Above all else , Baker understood the essential role of compromise in executive-legislative relations and it was the LSG that prevailed upon Reagan to give ground on the tax cut by accepting reductions of 5 per cent — 10 per cent — 10 per cent in three successive years in place of the 10 per cent — 10 per cent — 10 per cent of Kemp-Roth . |
| 28 | This achieved a 12 per cent reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide and completely eliminated emissions of sulphur dioxide , in site of a 23 per cent increase in energy consumption due to production expansion . |
| 29 | This surplus amounted to no more than 73 per cent of debt service and remittance payments ; and in spite of a 57 per cent increase in the volume of exports since 1980 , poor prices meant that the value of such exports represented a mere 24 per cent increase over the decade . |
| 30 | In spite of a 16 per cent rise in Hydro 's oil production to a record high , selling prices slipped over the year from $20 to $19 a barrel . |