Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [adj] per " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh yes , yes , no , I think I think that er and I think that you know that particularly the the Mirror Group Newspapers Trustees doing a doing an excellent job you know , but we have n't really got into the into the stock lending er arrangements , but the , the cases those I think are particularly you know important to us you see , because there is a there 's another hundred and fifty nine or a hundred and fifty three million I think of , of writs out at the moment and those I think are the ones where we 're going to really see whether the , the banks dig their heels in or not , you know , I think we 've , we 're rea very early stage , but basically I mean we 've still got eighty , getting on for eighty per cent of the missing monies still missing and we 're into our third , third year . |
| 2 | A recent application in our own hands has been in the treatment of multiple sclerosis where it has been found to be of value in restoring at least some nerve function in about 60–70 per cent of patients treated . |
| 3 | Contrary to Government and employer predictions , then the abolition of the scheme has not yet created a net increase in employment ( although one in five former scheme port operators envisaged recruitment in 1992 along with 37 per cent of former non-scheme operators ) . |
| 4 | Only 20 per cent of the lone men drew supplementary pensions , along with 33 per cent of widows and 28 per cent of other lone women ( DHSS , 1984 , p. 17 , Table 4 ; p. 19 , Table 7 ) . |
| 5 | The fall in the growth of average earnings continued , with the December year on year figure of 4.75 per cent , down from 5 per cent , in line with expectations and still well ahead of inflation . |
| 6 | The Home-Grown Cereals Authority Planting Survey shows that the variety contributes only 2.5 per cent of total area of Barley under cultivation in the Eastern Counties ( down from 6 per cent in 1990 ) , 0.5 per cent in the South and South West ( down from 0.8 per cent ) and 0.5 per cent in the Midlands down from 1.4 per cent . |
| 7 | It has come down from 52 per cent . |
| 8 | Export earnings covered only 12 per cent of imports in 1989 , down from 14 per cent in 1988 . |
| 9 | In the advanced capitalist countries as a whole the share of consumption declined far less than it did in Japan in those exceptional years — between 1952 and 1973 it only slid down from 62.9 per cent of GDP to 59.5 per cent . |
| 10 | In a country where anything so conspicuous as reducing food subsidies courts trouble , cut backs in the health sector may seem a safer bet ( in 1977 7.7 per cent of GNP was devoted to health care , down from 9.5 per cent in 1955 ; in comparison , proportions in the United States over the same period rose from 8 per cent to 11 per cent ) . |
| 11 | The Home-Grown Cereals Authority Planting Survey shows that the variety contributes only 2.5 per cent of total area of Barley under cultivation in the Eastern Counties ( down from 6 per cent in 1990 ) , 0.5 per cent in the South and South West ( down from 0.8 per cent ) and 0.5 per cent in the Midlands down from 1.4 per cent . |
| 12 | Overall , the poly graduate unemployment rate ( excluding short-term employment ) was down from 9.2 per cent to 6.9 per cent , bringing it closer than ever before to the university unemployment rate , which was 5.3 per cent in 1988 . |
| 13 | The 1990 growth in GDP of 8.3 per cent was down from 9.2 per cent in the previous year and from 11 per cent in 1988 . |
| 14 | Manufacturing grew by 9.5 per cent , down from 9.8 per cent in 1989 . |
| 15 | Importers are being hard hit in some cases , with the total share of the market down from 59.94 per cent a year ago to 55.45 per cent last month . |
| 16 | Er if you stand back from our situation and see it that er the contribution rate for employees was reduced from sixty five per cent for er a company i it became a balance of cost and that works out now at five per cent , so the total inputs of the scheme is ten per cent of earnings and that was down from eighteen per cent . |
| 17 | Between 1979 and 1989 the reduction in public-sector employment , extension of private home-ownership ( up from 55 per cent to 65 per cent ) and share-ownership ( up from 7 per cent to 22 per cent ) , increasing scope for private provision of services , and run-down of trade union membership ( down from 54 per cent to 46 per cent of the workforce ) have all been government objectives . |
| 18 | That decline , when coupled with the abolition of Labour party strongholds in local government in London and the metropolitan counties , reduced employment in the nationalized industries and public sector ( down from 29.4 per cent of the workforce in 1979 to 26.9 per cent in 1985 ) and a lower number of trade unionists and council tenants , means that a future Labour government will start from a much weaker position in terms of promoting its traditional objectives of public ownership , trade union bargaining rights , and collectivism . |
| 19 | In local elections held in Lower Saxony on Oct. 6 the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) share of the vote dropped from 46 per cent to 43.1 per cent while the SPD , which continued to control the Land government in conjunction with the Greens [ see pp. 37676 ] , won 40.2 per cent of the vote ( down from 40.5 per cent in 1986 ) . |
| 20 | In the Thames Valley last year the detection rate for car theft was just thirteen per cent , down from 20 per cent two years ago . |
| 21 | The Home-Grown Cereals Authority Planting Survey shows that the variety contributes only 2.5 per cent of total area of Barley under cultivation in the Eastern Counties ( down from 6 per cent in 1990 ) , 0.5 per cent in the South and South West ( down from 0.8 per cent ) and 0.5 per cent in the Midlands down from 1.4 per cent . |
| 22 | Down from 15.6 per cent average during the ‘ 74 –'79; Labour Government , to an average of 7.7 per cent under the Conservatives — and an estimated 4 per cent by the end of this year . |
| 23 | As a result of a concerted campaign , which included replacing nine area offices with four regional ones and which is still continuing , a clear six per cent was slashed off the 1991 cost base , bringing the cost ratio down from 19.2 per cent to 15.9 per cent in 1992 . |
| 24 | The government claimed that the policy had brought inflation down from 84 per cent per month to 5 per cent . |
| 25 | Only a minority ( 12 per cent ) ended in legitimate birth ( Werner 1982 ) following the marriage of the parents ( OPCS 1987b ) — down from 25 per cent in 1975 . |
| 26 | The PAP share of the vote fell to 61 per cent from Lee 's 63 per cent in 1988 ( itself down from 65 per cent in 1984 ) . |
| 27 | Figures released by the Bureau of Statistics on Feb. 12 showed GNP growth down from 7.3 per cent in 1989 to 5.3 per cent in 1990 , the lowest for eight years ; officials blamed a collapse in the stock market ( its index having fallen by almost 80 percentage points between February and October 1990 ) , lower industrial production and falling domestic investment . |
| 28 | Cheaper home loans , food and the post-Christmas reductions on a host of household goods pushed the headline rate of price increases for January down from 2.6 per cent in December . |
| 29 | This process had already begun with a mass mobilization in a literacy campaign which brought the illiteracy rate down from 50.2 per cent to 12.9 per cent by 1981 ( see page 245 ) . |
| 30 | The US discount rate is now down to 3.5 per cent , the lowest level for a generation . |