Example sentences of "per [unc] for the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That amount has just passed £1 billion per annum for the first time , representing a real terms increase of 2.5 per cent . |
| 2 | And the Greenwich is offering mortgages of at least £30,000 at 13.45 per cent for the first year . |
| 3 | The two-year deal amounted to 9.5 per cent for the first year and inflation plus 2.5 per cent for the second . |
| 4 | Giorgio Melchiori rightly sees pronouns as ‘ semiotic pointers ’ towards a ‘ network of relations ’ , and notes the far greater proportion of second-person pronouns in Shakespeare ( some 37.2 per cent compared to other poets ' average of 20 per cent , with 40.3 per cent for the first person ) . |
| 5 | The figures deepened City anxiety over the outlook for inflation which is now expected to end the year between 7.5 and 7.75 per cent and remain above 7 per cent for the first quarter of 1990 . |
| 6 | The debt service ratio ( as a percentage of GNP ) averaged 19.3 per cent in 1990 , and 20.7 per cent for the first quarter of 1991 . |
| 7 | The average wage increase in industry this spring is slightly below five per cent for the first time in four years . |
| 8 | Their share of the national vote dropped more than five per cent to below 30 per cent for the first time . |
| 9 | In fact , while the overall United Kingdom result shows a modest swing to Labour , in Scotland Labour 's share of the vote fell by 3.5 per cent , dropping below 40 per cent for the first time since October 1974 . |
| 10 | Yesterday the region — once the engine room of the late Eighties boom — saw its jobless total top 10 per cent for the first time since the end of the Second World War . |
| 11 | The Christian Democrats ( DC ) polled under 30 per cent for the first time since 1946 , but remained the largest party with 29.7 per cent and 206 seats in the Chamber of Deputies . |