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1 He said the figures for the business rate were much better as expected with a 94.1 per cent collection rate and end of year shortfall of about £850,000 .
2 The coupled Sepharose was packed in a 1.5 cm×1.3 cm column and carefully washed with a 50 mmol/l Tris/HCl , pH 8.0 , 0.15 mol/l NaCl buffer .
3 Comparison of the C-terminal regions of DRP and the dystrophins ( Fig. 2 ) shows that this region is highly conserved with an 80 per cent exact match and about half of the remaining residues conserved .
4 The £78 million fund , managed by Murray Johnstone , achieved a 10.7 per cent return on net assets , compared with a 22.2 per cent rise in the Index over the same six-month period .
5 The return on assets works out at 1.8 per cent compared with a 3.75 per cent target set by the Government .
6 Gross national product ( GNP ) had risen by 5.3 per cent , compared with a 2.4 per cent rise in 1991 .
7 According to figures released by Miti in January 1990 , Japan 's industrial output increased by 5.9 per cent during 1989 , compared with a 9.5 per cent rise in 1988 .
8 The first volume of the annual GATT trade review , entitled International Trade 1988/89 and published on Sept. 15 , 1989 , reported an 8.5 per cent growth in the volume of global merchandise trade in 1988 , the most rapid increase since 1984 ( and compared with a 5.5 per cent increase in 1987 ) .
9 The UK has a 7 per cent of this market compared with a 5.5 per cent share of trade in goods .
10 At the same time the price of leaded petrol was increased by 55 per cent , compared with a 25 per cent rise for unleaded , and electricity prices went up by 15 per cent .
11 The vice-presidency was won by Senator Tommy Remengesau who polled 51.7 per cent compared with the 48.3 per cent of the vote won by Sandra Pierantozzi .
12 He pointed out that if the regional companies signed new contracts with National Power and PowerGen , as he had permitted , 41 per cent of their requirements would be met by coal-fired stations , compared compared with the 17 per cent generated by independent gas-fired producers .
13 Its economists estimate that Scotland 's gross domestic product will rise in 1993 by 3.5 per cent , compared with the 1 per cent predicted for the UK as a whole in the Government 's economic statement last autumn .
14 The government aimed at reducing the budget deficit to 6.2 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) in 1992 , compared with the 6.9 per cent originally forecast in 1991 .
15 However , compared with the 70 per cent of women referred from other sources ( 39 ) who were sectioned , the number of female GP referrals sectioned was significantly lower ( p=0.011 ) .
16 Clinton polled 43 per cent of the popular vote and won 370 electoral college votes , compared with the 38 per cent and 168 electoral college votes won by Bush .
17 The use of low-sulphur coal reduces sulphur output by only about 50 per cent , compared with the 90 per cent removal that can be achieved with FGD .
18 By 1931–32 married women were experiencing 140 per cent more sickness than the insurance commissioners had anticipated , compared with the 25 per cent more sickness experienced by unmarried women and the less-than-expected sickness rates of men .
19 The Chairman of British Airways , for example , had received a pay increase of 117 per cent compared with the 6 per cent awarded to the company 's lowest paid workers .
20 Nevertheless InterCity cheerfully reveals that the VIP/first-class/full-dining trains contribute by far the largest share of the special-trains earnings — 50 per cent — compared with the 23 per cent from private charters , 18 per cent by standardclass charters , and 5 per cent by the steam market .
21 THE council tax will bring administrative savings of 16 per cent , compared with the 60 per cent predicted by the Scottish Office , according to the controller of audit , John Broadfoot .
22 It has exploited a slack time — the hiatus between the end of tunnelling work on the Channel link and the start of London 's Jubilee Line Underground extension — to demand that contractors work to tighter margins : between 3 and 7 per cent , compared with the 15 per cent allowed by North West Water , for example , on its contracts .
23 He achieved a double figure percentage of the vote only in Mississippi , and scored a derisory 9 per cent in his home state , compared with the 39 per cent which he had achieved there in the November 1991 gubernatorial contest .
24 The plan predicted an average annual growth in gross domestic product ( GDP ) of 8.2 per cent , compared with the 10.5 per cent achieved under the sixth five-year plan .
25 By 1974 , on the eve of local government reorganization , rural district councils provided 20 per cent of the rural housing stock , compared with the 31 per cent supplied by local authorities elsewhere .
26 Violence , dishonesty , fire raising , indecency and drugs offences have risen 17.2 per cent since 1990 , compared with an 11 per cent Scottish average , said HM Chief Inspector Colin Sampson .
27 Profits at Superdrug were little changed at £34.8 million , but the move to selling perfumes at discount prices was rewarded with a 2 per cent market share .
28 According to one study based on data for 29 WFS countries ( Rutstein , 1983 , p.32 ) , among toddlers aged one year , this difference in spacing is associated with a 46 per cent higher mortality of those born less than 24 months after the earlier sibling .
29 Klein s work rests upon a moral and normative order which can either , as in the work of other object-relations theorists , become associated with a particular status quo in terms of family structure and roles , or else , if rechannelled , be used for a radical critique of these same institutions ( e.g. Frosh 1987 ) .
30 For example , our hypothetical Phillips curve shows that a 4 per cent per annum wage increase ( equivalent to 2 per cent inflation with a 2 per cent productivity growth ) is associated with a 3 per cent unemployment rate , and that a 9 per cent annum wage increase ( equivalent to 7 per cent inflation ) is associated with a 2 per cent unemployment rate .
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