Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj] per " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barro obtains a value of 1.4 for his test statistic , which is less than the critical value under the F distribution with 3 and 19 degrees of freedom at the 5 per cent significance level . |
| 2 | Last week the firm said it hoped to agree a sale of part of the 61 per cent stake owned by American Express as part of a deal to inject new equity into the firm . |
| 3 | There followed three nights of violence in the 80 per cent black area of Crown Heights , during which cars and barricades were burnt , shops looted , and running battles fought between youths and police . |
| 4 | March 31 : in a referendum held in Georgia 99 per cent voted in favour of independence in a 90 per cent turnout , and on April 9 Georgia proclaimed its independence . |
| 5 | According to the Guardian of July 30 , the economic reform package approved by the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and introduced on Jan. 1 , 1990 [ see p. 37130 ] , produced the following results in the first six months : a reduction of inflation from a monthly rate of 80 per cent in January to 3.4 per cent in June ; the transformation of a budget deficit equivalent to 8 per cent of GDP into a 6-7 per cent surplus ; and the stabilization of the zloty at 9,500 against the dollar . |
| 6 | He told ugly old women they would meet handsome young men soon , he told handsome young men they would meet large sums of money soon , he told dimwitted mothers that their sons would n't be coming home in nice wooden boxes from theatres of war with a 99 per cent casualty rate , he told collectors where they could locate that elusive antique backscratcher needed to complete a set . |
| 7 | The IMF had in late June 1989 approved a drawing of 9,180,000 special drawing rights ( approximately USdollars 11,460,000 ) under the second annual structural adjustment programme ( ie part of a three-year plan agreed with the IMF in October 1987 ) , with objectives including tax reform , reform of the cotton sector , liberalization of price controls and foreign trade , reduction of the balance-of-payments deficit ( currently some USdollars 64,000,000 ) , the control of inflation within a 5 per cent ceiling , and boosting of real economic growth to 3 per cent . |
| 8 | First , any small party could link its lists , for the purposes of calculation of the 5 per cent rule , to the lists of a larger party , provided those two parties had not competed against each other in any Land ( the " piggyback " procedure ) . |