Example sentences of "for a [adj] [adj] per cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the employers persuaded them to hold off until 1966 , when they settled for a mere 5 per cent rise over the three years to 1969 . |
| 2 | The federal government 's 75 per cent share in Usiminas was sold for US$1,170 million , mostly to Brazilian investors ; the share of foreign capital accounted for a disappointing 5.9 per cent of the total . |
| 3 | His prophecy had proved to be correct , for the trade he brought her way currently accounted for a good thirty per cent of her income . |
| 4 | The evening paper flung aside violently and scattering into its separate half-dozen sheets accounted for a good fifty per cent of the chaos . |
| 5 | Direct-grant schools , formally independent but associated with the maintained system , accounted for a further 1.5 per cent . |
| 6 | Oil and sewage sources accounted for 20 per cent of the total ; agricultural and industrial sources for a further 10 per cent each . |
| 7 | Among the groups that have increased , the largest single cause of the increase was divorce , 60 per cent ; an increase in the numbers of single mothers accounted for a further 34 per cent , lone fathers just over 3 per cent and separated women just under 2 per cent . |
| 8 | Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors spokesman Peter Miller called for a further one per cent reduction on the stroke of midnight on New Year 's Eve . |
| 9 | In both cities men of £40-£99 accounted for a further 16–19 per cent . |
| 10 | Death during transport and in quarantine account for a further 20 per cent of each batch . |
| 11 | For a further 20 per cent , the gap was between one month and six months and for the remaining 5 per cent it was over six months . |
| 12 | The motivation factor for a further 21 per cent of the interviewees was the heroin use of the majority of their friends-sometimes loosely described as ‘ peer-group pressure ’ . |
| 13 | The traditionally Muslim peoples of Central Asia accounted for a further 15 per cent ; and the balance was made up for the most part of the larger national groups in Transcaucasia and the Baltic . |
| 14 | There is no doubt that the Brussels Agreement provided for a significant 25 per cent expansion in the resources available to the EC . |
| 15 | The 11 countries attending the meeting agreed on a Saudi Arabian proposal for a voluntary 5 per cent production cut by all member states , which it was hoped would reduce their collective output by just over 1,000,000 barrels per day , to 22,300,000 bpd . |