Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [prep] [art] [adj] per " in BNC.
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| 1 | Managers say that prudent lending and a close knowledge of local people are the reasons for a 34 per cent leap in net profits . |
| 2 | The hard campaigning continued and two years later , in 1985 , 21 countries signed the Helsinki Protocol , a legally binding agreement equivalent to the demands of the Thirty Per Cent Club . |
| 3 | This would be an inappropriate measure for most purposes as most of the effects of a 10 per cent inflation rate ( discussed later in this chapter ) would still apply . |
| 4 | Meanwhile some 2,600,000 people in the central and southern provinces were suffering from the effects of a 60 per cent fall in agricultural production attributed to drought and conflict . |
| 5 | Public-service workers in such unions as NUPE and NALGO objected to the effects of the 5 per cent pay norm on low-paid workers , and on 22 January a national strike of 24 hours was declared by public-service workers . |
| 6 | Also , for the purposes of the 75 per cent vote , there are disregarded shares held by any person whom the court regards as a promoter of the scheme . |
| 7 | The potential profits of the buyers of the 60 per cent of Entel to be sold off would be reduced by being based on the purchase price of $1,900 million and not on the $3,500 million net asset value as fixed by the government . |
| 8 | Food output increased considerably from 1700 to 1800 , accommodating the needs of a 60 per cent rise in population with , in most years , a small surplus to export . |
| 9 | In a previous book I suggested that it might be parasitic , freeloading on the efforts of the 1 per cent , a theory that has more recently been taken up by molecular biologists under the name of ‘ selfish DNA ’ . |
| 10 | The charges of a 5 per cent initial fee , 1.25 per cent annual , are standard . |
| 11 | The charges of a 5 per cent initial fee , 1.25 per cent annual , are standard . |
| 12 | The charges of a 5 per cent initial fee , 1.25 per cent annual , are standard . |
| 13 | In addition , a likelihood ratio test of the cross-equation restrictions does not reject the restrictions at the 1 per cent significance level for any of these countries . |