Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [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 | Stockholm : Strong gains by engineer Alfa-Laval helped the index to a 0.06 per cent rise . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The voluntary agreement commits the industry to a 50 per cent . |
| 8 | In the light of the 86 per cent . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Secondly , both houses sitting jointly as a " congress " in Versailles would have to approve the revision by a 60 per cent majority . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Within hours of the announcement of a one per cent reduction in interest rates , the phones started ringing more frequently at Andrews Estate Agency in Gloucester . |
| 23 | ADVERTISING and public relations group , Lowe Howard-Spink & Bell , yesterday saw its shares rise 9p to 422p on the announcement of a 16 per cent rise in profits before tax to £7.7m for the half year to end June . |
| 24 | SHARES in Turriff Corporation , the Midlands-based construction and plant hire group , put on 1p to 334p against the market trend on the announcement of a 30 per cent rise in pre-tax profits to £1.76m . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | We gave close consideration to the appropriate discount level and I am sure that my hon. Friend will agree that there is a certain symmetry and element of justice readily apparent in the concept of a 25 per cent . |
| 27 | But such a move does nothing for women , or for the concept of the feminine per se : it expands our understanding of what is to be considered authentically male . |
| 28 | The profits growth came on the back of a 26 per cent rise in sales to more than £53m , with the total number of units sold up from 676 to 745 in the year . |
| 29 | However , in the event of a 1 per cent fall in the market rate , the return of the security is expected to decrease by less than 1 per cent . |
| 30 | Which seem to me re re re re reasonable to be suggesting that we could lobby government , in order to say that , people with special training needs ca n't be included within the whole of the hundred per cent linked output related funding , be because the issue is that then , er they do have special training , and that 's that that 's the justification for them , that particular group . |