Example sentences of "cent [adv prt] on [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Total sales for the first two months of 1991 at 287,876 were nearly 23 per cent down on the same period in 1990 .
2 In the six months to the end of July the group made a profit of £1.18million — 4.4 per cent down on the same period last year .
3 Although the Christian Democrats ( CD ) , who had controlled the city council since the end of the Second World War , won only 94 fewer votes than the League — translating as 24.3 per cent of the vote and 7.6 per cent down on the last elections — the Brescia poll was widely interpreted as signalling a disillusionment among voters with existing electoral options .
4 London is faring particularly badly : this quarter new commissions were valued at £3,143 million , 23 per cent down on the previous quarter and dramatically down on the £7,247 million value for the same quarter last year .
5 Other areas showing significant falls are Wales , 46 per cent down on the previous quarter , Midlands/East Anglia ( 30 per cent ) , North ( 21 per cent ) , South West ( 20 per cent ) , and Ulster ( 15 per cent ) .
6 ‘ Green form ’ advice for consumer problems was 16 per cent down on the previous year .
7 Between 1979 and 1988 the total number of indictable offences known to the police ( ignoring offences of criminal damage of value 20 or less ) increased by just under 50 per cent ( the 1988 total was in fact 4.5 per cent down on the previous year ) .
8 The budget deficit , set at KD1,318,600,000 , was 2 per cent down on the previous year .
9 The general administrative budget , at 489,822,000 million francs CFA , was 2.1 per cent down on the previous year 's budget but 1.3 per cent above the actual figure for 1989 .
10 Total UK car sales , at 266,072 , were 7 per cent up on the 1991 figure .
11 In the first three months of 1992 , a further 6,631 cases were reported ( 50 per cent up on the equivalent period last year ) .
12 The 1990 budget , presented by the government and approved by the National Assembly on Feb. 21 , 1990 , set spending at £Syr61,875 million , 8.5 per cent up on the 1989 budget [ for which see p. 37100 ] .
13 At £2,077 million it was just over 26 per cent up on April , and 52 per cent up on the corresponding month in 1992 .
14 The company 's co-brokers , Hoare Govett , had hoped for £12m before tax ; in the event the figure was £9.54m , still 89 per cent up on the corresponding period 's £5.04m .
15 The British Sub Aqua Club ( BSAC ) has just reported a record-breaking year , with the number of dives off the UK coast estimated at about two million — 100 per cent up on the previous year .
16 These show an accelerating rate of growth , not only in the rate of increase in VAT registered businesses , to a net average of 1,200 a week in the past year — 50 per cent up on the previous year — but also in the self-employed , who rose from just under two million to more than three million .
17 The company made a £670 million profit last year — six per cent up on the previous year .
18 I ran CPAV past my library of 3,000-plus viruses and the success rate is a reflection of the package 's US origins — it detected 66 per cent of the infected files , 5 per cent up on the previous version , 1.3 .
19 Despite the fall in September sales , the figures produced by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders show that total sales in the first nine months , at 1,919,338 , are still 5 per cent up on the same period last year .
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