Example sentences of "growth of [num] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other developed countries as a group showed growths of 8 per cent in exports by volume and of 9 per cent in imports . |
| 2 | Even if the North Sea oil bonus is stripped out , the firm expects Scottish growth of 1.4 per cent after a fall of 1.3 per cent in non-oil output between 1991 and 1992 . |
| 3 | On Nov. 21 , 1990 , Finance Minister Kamikamica presented the 1991 budget , which predicted growth of 3.4 per cent in 1991 , and a narrowing of the budget deficit to F$69,700,000 in 1991 compared with F$74,700,000 in 1990 . |
| 4 | Subject to budgetary approval , the plan ratified by both houses of the federal parliament will mean growth of 16 per cent pa in the science budget for the next four years . |
| 5 | This is a growth of 16 per cent between 1981 and 1985 . |
| 6 | It suggests that the market will continue to show growth of 2.9 per cent pa over the next five years despite the major question mark over recyclability and solvent emissions . |
| 7 | While figures for the year showed an increase in real growth of 2.9 per cent , business investment was down 3 per cent , consumer spending down 0.1 per cent and the growth elements appeared only to be in home purchases and government spending . |
| 8 | Despite falling export earnings from oil products , government policy was blamed for modest growth of 2.9 per cent in 1991 , for annual inflation of 50 per cent , for a 30 per cent underemployment rate and the fact that an estimated 70 per cent of the population was living below the poverty line . |
| 9 | The government 's programme for 1992 aimed at a rate of gross domestic product ( GDP ) growth of 6.5 per cent , a reduction in the rate of inflation to 6-7 per cent and a strengthening of the country 's external payments position . |
| 10 | To do this , and to be able to return to all shareholders the full 100p value of their initial investment , the managers must achieve compound growth of 6.8 per cent — a modest target given their plan to invest 80 per cent of the fund in UK blue-chip companies and the fact that the top 20 Footsie stocks last year accounted for 40 per cent of the total income of the FT-all share index . |
| 11 | The 1979 Royal Commission on the National Health Service estimated that an annual growth of 1 per cent in public expenditure was required simply to keep pace with demographic pressures . |
| 12 | The University 's 1990 planning statement envisaged overall growth of 1 per cent a year with an increase in the proportion of graduates to undergraduates . |
| 13 | From then on a ‘ normal ’ rate of dividend growth of 5 per cent is expected . |
| 14 | The service and construction industries recorded growth of 10 per cent in 1989 but manufacturing showed no significant increases . |
| 15 | With average GDP growth of 10 per cent , Botswana 's was one of the fastest growing economies in the world in the 1980s . |
| 16 | ‘ UK wage behaviour is out of line with other countries ’ , the Bank says , citing three years of average earnings growth of 7 per cent to 8 per cent a year , despite high and rising unemployment . |
| 17 | As Zinyama and Whitlow ( 1986 ) have pointed out , erosion problems are likely to increase in the Communal Lands , where a population growth of 3.6 per cent per year means that the population will double in less than 20 years . |
| 18 | Last year 's sales came to £2.4 million which represented a growth of 11.6 per cent on the previous year 's figure . |
| 19 | Both loans were dependent on major economic adjustments to reduce dependence on oil exports and to improve domestic competitiveness , and in the medium term to strengthen the current-account position consistent with real annual economic growth of 4.5-6 per cent , to reduce the external debt-service burden while strengthening the external reserve position , and to improve domestic investment . |
| 20 | Export growth of 4 per cent in Latin America compared unfavourably with 8 per cent in Asian developing countries . |
| 21 | The OECD in its report published in July 1991 said that economic growth had slowed in 1990 to 3.5 per cent compared with growth of 4 per cent in 1989 . |
| 22 | Announcing the package in parliament , Keating said that the spending programme was the first stage of a four-year " strategy for growth " which would produce an average GDP growth of 4 per cent , cutting unemployment from the current post-war high of 10.3 per cent to 7.75 per cent through the creation of 800,000 jobs . |
| 23 | The four large middle-class suburbs grew at especially great rates — Charlottenburg from 20,000 inhabitants in 1871 to 323,000 in 1919 , a growth of 1,667 per cent ; Schöneberg from 4,500 in 1871 to 262,000 in 1919 ; Steglitz from 1,900 in 1871 to 83,400 in 1919 and Wilmersdorf from 1,662 to 139,400 . |
| 24 | The economy made good progress during the first half of 1990 , with GNP growth of 1.5 per cent , a reduction in the budget deficit , a noticeable improvement in the trade balance and a fall in inflation to 8 per cent from around 25 per cent in 1989 . |
| 25 | The report predicted economic growth of 1.5 per cent in 1991 , rising to 2.3 per cent in 1992 , driven by growth in investment and exports . |
| 26 | The one bright spot is America where DKB International is forecasting gross domestic product growth of 1.1 per cent this year rising to 2.3 per cent next . |
| 27 | According to the IDB annual report published on April 7 , there was a O.8 per cent fall in gross domestic product in Latin America and the Caribbean in 1990 , compared with growth of 0.9 per cent in 1989 . |
| 28 | Government targets already agreed with the IMF included reducing the fiscal deficit from 6.1 per cent in 1989 to 2.5 per cent in 1990 ; reducing inflation from 89.3 per cent to 37.7 per cent in 1990 and to 30 per cent in 1991 ; and achieving growth of 2 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) during 1990 . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , the ECA report noted that in 1989 food production in Africa had actually grown faster than population , for only the third time in 20 years ( 3.4 per cent , against population growth of 3.2 per cent ) , and that food imports had fallen by 12 per cent . |
| 30 | Full results were not due until the autumn of 1990 , but first figures showed an average population growth of 9.3 per cent over 10 years , with the Central Asian republics growing fastest ( 22-34 per cent ) and the Russian Republic ( with 51.4 per cent of the total population ) at only 7 per cent . |