Example sentences of "[noun pl] with [art] [adj] [unc] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manchester City ( £5.48 ) offered the cheapest average top-flight entrance fee , while near-neighbours Oldham hit their supporters with a 67 per cent increase to an average £6.39 , after winning promotion . |
| 2 | He had spent fourteen years with the French Service de Documentation Exterieure et de Contre Espionage before becoming one of Philpott 's first field operatives when UNACO was founded in I980 . |
| 3 | The former economics professor conceded that his plan to replace six indirect taxes with a 15 per cent goods and services tax ( GST ) , which he had said was essential to make Australia competitive , had been unpopular . |
| 4 | HTV Group , the Swansea-based Independent Television contractor and fine arts dealer , beat all City forecasts with a 25.4 per cent increase in pre-tax profits to £18m in the year to 31 July . |
| 5 | A further meeting in April , at which the London Club steering committee rejected a Nigerian proposal to convert outstanding loans into 30-year bonds with a 3 per cent interest rate , was followed by the announcement that Nigeria intended unilaterally to cut interest payments on some of its debt to that level , from the agreed level of 9.5 per cent , with effect from May 1 . |
| 6 | This figure would include $800,000,000 in commercial credits , $400,000,000 in soft loans with a 1.75 per cent interest rate , repayable over 20 years , and $80,000,000 in social credits . |
| 7 | ‘ We will use whatever influence we have to the full to ensure , for example , that you do n't tax middle-managers with a 49 per cent rate at £27,000 , and you do n't tax people above £40,000 with a combined 59 per cent rate . |
| 8 | Mr Ashdown said : ‘ Imposing 59 per cent tax rates incorporating NICs at £40,000 is very bad news indeed , in particular hitting middle management , not just middle-income earners with a 49 per cent tax rate at £27,000 . |
| 9 | The club , which joined the league only four years ago , are the only one in all divisions with a 100 per cent record this season . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In division two , Hightown Club ( Dave Cochran ) kicked off as leaders with a 100 per cent record , but they lost both records in a 4-1 defeat against new leaders Moorgate Villa ( Robbie Waith 2 ) . |
| 12 | The Soviet Union was the largest trader still outside GATT , ranking eighth in world export rankings with a 3.5 per cent share of international trade in goods . |
| 13 | The new president was fundamentally at odds with the international status quo that he encountered in January 1959 . |
| 14 | The effect of this is a reduction which is clearly at odds with the 8.9 per cent set out in the original bill . |
| 15 | But the net cost of 1 million raised from selling shares with a 10 per cent dividend is 100,000 per annum . |
| 16 | Even excluding bonuses , British top managers beat their French , German and Dutch counterparts with a 12.1 per cent hike in basic pay ( although their real increases — 5.1 per cent — were not much larger than on the continent ) . |