Example sentences of "[prep] the 1 per " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time , the Chancellor announced that with immediate effect the threshold for the 1 per cent stamp duty charged on houses would be lifted from £30,000 to £60,000 , which will cut the cost of buying a £60,000 home by £600 . |
| 2 | Year-to-year variations in sulphur dioxide concentrations occur such as the 1 per cent increase between 1987 and 1988 and the 3 per cent decrease between 1988 and 1989 . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | Thirdly UK contributions coming from the application of the 1 per cent VAT rate were also high , because of the high ratio of consumption expenditure to GNP within the UK . |
| 5 | Its economists estimate that Scotland 's gross domestic product will rise in 1993 by 3.5 per cent , compared with the 1 per cent predicted for the UK as a whole in the Government 's economic statement last autumn . |
| 6 | Apart from the 1 per cent who have their own private supplies , the great majority of the UK population rely upon the decisions of the water suppliers to ensure that the great bulk of the water we drink and cook with is ‘ wholesome ’ . |
| 7 | Markets tumble : The FT-SE 100 index fell 30.5 points to 2,281.6 as a reaction to the 1 per cent increase in base rates . |
| 8 | This is certainly significant at the 1 per cent level , though we must bear in mind that these expectations are calculated on the basis of a purely random distribution of sites , which may not be quite true in practice . |
| 9 | Only 0–40 per cent of pentads should turn out to be of this length or less in this context , so that the expected number of pentads like Saintbury is only about 0–0040 × 0–042 = 0–00017 — which is certainly significant at the 1 per cent level . |
| 10 | Looking at significant lines discovered on the 1:50 000 map sheets , there are 204 of these sheets in all , and thus two chance alignments , apparently significant at the 1 per cent level , can be expected . |
| 11 | For their UK data ADD carried out such a test and obtained a test statistic of 17.93 which has to be compared with a critical chi-square value of 15.5 at the 5 per cent level and 20.1 at the 1 per cent level , with 8 degrees of freedom . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They find that the null hypothesis that the anticipated component of monetary growth exerts no influence on real output can not be rejected for any country at the 1 per cent level . |