Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a [adj] per cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | And although the City Council has managed over the years to old council house rents down , I think for three years there was absolutely no rent increase and then only about a nine per cent increase , although we 've managed to hold council house rents down until |
| 2 | The challenge for Europe 's left parties will be to overcome party patriotism and work out how to construct majorities in the new era , for traditional parties of the right , also , can manage only about a 40 per cent turnout , if that . |
| 3 | Only after a 10 per cent . |
| 4 | The Deminex package includes LASMO 's interests in the Bruce , Keith and M fields together with a 25 per cent interest in block 16/12a containing the ‘ Tree ’ fields . |
| 5 | The engineers at Dacia , cossetted perhaps by a 99 per cent share of the local market , offer no relief . |
| 6 | Initially the response was sparse , but following the sending of reminder letters , by the end of 1983 ( the ‘ closing date ’ ) , just over a 50 per cent response rate was reached . |
| 7 | SHAREHOLDERS in Pacific Horizon Investment must be congratulating themselves on their decision last August to switch the trust 's investment management from Jupiter Tyndall to Edinburgh 's Baillie Gifford , after news yesterday of a 38.8 per cent leap in net asset value per share at halfway , writes George Duthie . |
| 8 | PREMIER John Major hailed the start of economic recovery yesterday despite a nine per cent fall in retail sales . |
| 9 | These expansion moves were announced yesterday alongside a 22 per cent rise in Devenish 's profit to £14million for the year to September 30 . |
| 10 | Although both General Motors and Ford would like to forge a liason with Jaguar , that interest does not translate automatically into a 28 per cent increase in the share price in a week . |
| 11 | The predictions made by Johnson were tested by simulation studies , which showed that even for a 100 per cent packed file , if the discipline he recommended is adhered to , the average number of accesses can be kept down to 1.5 per retrieval , and for larger bucket sizes this is reduced to around 1.25 . |
| 12 | Even with a 25 per cent discount , single adults living alone in a property banded above D will pay more under the council tax than under the poll tax . |
| 13 | Aggreko generator hire , Salvesen 's world market leader which provides power for customers from pop concerts to the oil industry , contributed strongly to a 37 per cent growth in trading profits in the industrial services division . |
| 14 | In addition , the number of β-galactosidase staining positive cells was also consistently above a few per cent of cells for the serum starved cells . |
| 15 | The trust at this stage had not one penny to its name but the Historic Buildings Council came forward with a ninety per cent grant for emergency works . |
| 16 | Coopers & Lybrand took issue with the official Red Book projections of growth rising to annualised 2 per cent rate in the second half of this year , climbing to 3½ per cent from 1993–94 to 1996–97 , and based its forecasts instead on a 2½ per cent growth rate . |
| 17 | The 1988 federal budget had envisaged a deficit of $500 million , due primarily to a 22 per cent drop in oil revenues . |
| 18 | The work really began when Kaufman noticed that if mouse eggs were exposed briefly to a 7 per cent solution of alcohol a significant proportion ( up to 20 per cent ) of the embryos which developed were aneuploid ( Journal of Embryology and Experimental Morphology , vol 7 1 , p 139 ) . |