Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] a [num] per " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will be remembered that an estimate was made of a 20–30 per cent proportion of adults as subject to sexual difficulty . |
| 2 | Profits at Superdrug were little changed at £34.8 million , but the move to selling perfumes at discount prices was rewarded with a 2 per cent market share . |
| 3 | The effect of the strike was defused by a 6.5 per cent government pay offer made to teachers and civil servants on Oct. 22 , the promise of concessions to striking nurses ( who had been camping in front of the Health Ministry for three weeks ) , and a series of measures to end protests by farmers . |
| 4 | Secondly the allowance for inflation was based on a three per cent price increase and because of the very competitive nature of the prices we receive for maintenance work a sum of two hundred and seventy thousand pounds can be carried forward into next year from this allowance , in other words the real purchasing power of the budget have been maintained and two hundred and seventy thousand pounds can be put aside to stand in the future . |
| 5 | It has become the focus of concern after scientific studies suggested that depletion of the ozone layer was resulting in a 12 per cent reduction in numbers of phytoplankton — the organism at the bottom of the marine food chain , on which whales depend . |
| 6 | The Russian government amended its original plan to make the rouble fully convertible by Aug. 1 , 1992 , saying that a unitary floating exchange rate , due to be introduced from July , would continue for several months before the rouble was fixed within a 7.5 per cent fluctuation band either side of a central rate . |
| 7 | The solution sought was the conversion of as much of the debt as possible into long-term funded redeemable debt , as in 1763 at the end of the Seven Years War when £3,670,739 worth of Navy and ordnance debt was converted into a 4 per cent stock funded on " earmarked " tax revenue . |
| 8 | It had also added a second referendum proposal ( which was rejected by a 53 per cent majority , according to Estonian radio on June 29 ) allowing participation in the forthcoming election by all those who had applied for citizenship by June 5 [ for citizenship issue see also p. 38880 ] . |