Example sentences of "with a [adj] [adj] per cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We will use whatever influence we have to the full to ensure , for example , that you do n't tax middle-managers with a 49 per cent rate at £27,000 , and you do n't tax people above £40,000 with a combined 59 per cent rate . |
| 2 | The 1990 budget presented on Jan. 1 , 1990 , announced an increase of 8 per cent in government expenditure to US$4,600 million , coupled with a predicted 18.5 per cent growth in revenues to $3,771 million and a lower projected budget deficit of $826.3 million . |
| 3 | Turner 's Mercury and Herse suffered a similar fate , dragging down the sale 's total to £1.2 million with a punishing 42 per cent bought in by value . |
| 4 | The Grand Coalition then became crippled and although the CDU emerged first from the elections with a respectable 46 per cent , they were outnumbered by the SPD ( who rose to 43 per cent ) and FDP ( who declined to 6 per cent , their lowest vote ever ) . |
| 5 | To be fair , though , there 's just as much of mad Al Jourgenson 's influence in their sample-laden industrial ear-bashers , coming with a good 50 per cent more hate than your regulation grebo fare . |
| 6 | Callaghan also found the Americans sympathetic ( in contrast to the Europeans ) to Labour 's attempt to ease the 1964 balance of payments crisis with a temporary 15 per cent import surcharge . |
| 7 | For example , W. A. Speck 's work on division lists for Queen Anne 's reign shows that the vast majority of MPs voted consistently either Whig or Tory , with a mere 12.2 per cent wavering in their allegiance , whilst in a similar analysis of division lists for William 's reign , usually regarded as a period when party conflict was less clearly defined , Henry Horwitz found that only 14 per cent of MPs voted across party lines . |
| 8 | Following James 's defeat , more Catholic land was confiscated , leaving them with a mere 14 per cent share of Irish territory . |
| 9 | Nearly half think that their school review was very thorough , almost another half think it was fairly so , with a mere 6 per cent thinking it not . |
| 10 | Labour turnover has been increasing , especially in the accommodation department and ( more recently ) in the restaurant , with a disturbing 20 per cent rise in accidents in housekeeping and the restaurant . |
| 11 | In 1987 the SNP trailed the three other parties with a lowly 10.7 per cent but this time says Mr Fisher , a widower who lives in Dollar , the mood is different . |
| 12 | One thousand buildings have been constructed to these standards at costs of one per cent more but with a resulting 40 per cent cut in heating bills . |
| 13 | According to a report in the Financial Times of June 1 , 1990 , a government adviser , Stanislaw Gomulka , had estimated that GDP could fall by 15 per cent in 1990 , with a steady 7 per cent recovery in growth from 1992 . |
| 14 | The Communists , with a projected 8.5 per cent , were expected to win around a dozen seats . |
| 15 | The report , by Grampian 's economic development and planning department , also reveals that the out-of-work totals increased in all five districts in the region , with a dramatic 41 per cent increase in Kincardine and Deeside . |
| 16 | Company profits are now expected to be level this year compared with a near 2 per cent fall last November , but next year 's improvement has been cut from 4.4 per cent to 2.9 per cent . |
| 17 | Its central theme is to make polluters pay , starting with a proposed 30 per cent rise in the price of petrol . |
| 18 | A long and mutually profitable sequence of cooperation seems set to run its course , with a comfortable 100 per cent benchmark score for both players . |