Example sentences of "below [art] [adj] per " in BNC.
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| 1 | For new short-term borrowings ( which on several occasions rose above £100 millions ) the BEA were charged bank rate ( or only slightly more ) : this rose from 2 per cent under Labour to 4 per cent in March 1952 , falling slightly in the following years , but rising again and , from February 1955 never falling below the 4 per cent level . |
| 2 | This page and View from City Road , Page 21 Dalgety stake : Como International , owned jointly by Elf Aquataine and Robert Holmes a Court , has reduced its holding below the 5 per cent level requiring disclosure . |
| 3 | He may have to change his tune if a swing to the right-wing Republicans shoves his beloved Free Democrats below the 5 per cent mark and so out of the Bundestag in the next elections . |
| 4 | Die Gruenen had dropped below the 5 per cent needed to enter the Bundestag in the last polls . |
| 5 | In the late 1989 and 1990 West German elections for the state legislatures , the Republicans ' support sank below the 5 per cent hurdle necessary for parliamentary representation . |
| 6 | In the former West Germany the Greens , represented in the Bundestag ( lower house of parliament ) for the last seven years , fell below the 5 per cent threshold and lost representation altogether . |
| 7 | Although the Greens increased their share of the vote from 2.9 to 4.9 per cent , this left them just below the 5 per cent threshold required for representation . |
| 8 | But the broad measure of money in the economy , M4 , fell last month to an annual rate of 3.2 per cent from 3.7 per cent in December — below the 4-8 per cent target range set by the Chancellor , Norman Lamont . |
| 9 | Manufacturing output grew by 8 per cent , below the 10 per cent average of the previous five years , and mining by 9 per cent . |
| 10 | Thus , Walker points out that , in 1981 , 66.8 per cent of all pensioners lived at or below the 140 per cent supplementary-benefit level , compared with one-fifth of the non-elderly ; and the risk of experiencing poverty is three times greater for those over retirement age than it is for those below it . |
| 11 | The re-formed Democratic Party of the Left ( PDS ) won 10.8 per cent and the Communist Refoundation ( RC ) 3.5 per cent , their combined vote being well below the 19.4 per cent for the Communist Party ( PCI ) in 1986 . |
| 12 | PAY rises are falling , with many deals now below the 3.7 per cent inflation rate , according to a new report . |
| 13 | PAY rises are falling , with many deals now below the 3.7 per cent inflation rate , according to a new report . |
| 14 | Thus the last burst of activity in the UK housing market — from the mid-Eighties to 1989 , when many of the largest mortgages were taken on — was based on the assumption that some rates would remain at or below the ten per cent threshold . |
| 15 | It was they who caused a reluctant minister to accept , in 1963 , the introduction of an examination at 15 + other than O level ( the CSE examination ) specifically designed for the next 40 per cent of the ability range below the 20 per cent for whom 0 level was thought to be appropriate . |
| 16 | Tariff barriers on basic grains were to be eliminated across the region by the end of the year , and duties on all agricultural produce by June 1992 ; duties on most other products should be held below a 20 per cent ceiling from the beginning of 1993 . |