Example sentences of "[to-vb] a [adj] per " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hundreds of bus company workers have been voting on whether to accept a six per cent pay cut . |
| 2 | The involvement of the ministry led Finance Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto to accept a 10 per cent cut in his salary for three months in order to assume responsibility for the scandal . |
| 3 | However , 19 regional unions at the state oil company PETROBRAS were reported to have voted to accept a 98 per cent increase . |
| 4 | Equally , employers in the wool and worsted industry , having failed to get wage reductions in 1929 , forced the textile unions to accept a 9 per cent reduction in wage rates in June 1930 , after a ten-week lock-out . |
| 5 | Okun feels that the price set by Rawls on equality is too high but in this context he would be prepared to accept a 60 per cent leak Okun ( 1975 , p. 94 ) . |
| 6 | One group on low income who will lose out consists of those people living in areas where the poll tax is levied at a higher rate than the Government calculates , and who in consequence will have to meet a 20 per cent poll tax bill that is larger than that calculated by the 20 per cent met by the Government . |
| 7 | The so-called Winter of Discontent ( 1978–9 ) generated even more anti-trade-union sentiment , especially as Labour 's attempt to establish a 5 per cent pay norm led to strikes by lorry drivers and the low paid and produced television scenes of ‘ mountains ’ of uncollected refuse ( Scraton , 1985b ) . |
| 8 | An estimated 5,000 public-sector health workers , taking action against government privatization plans , were joined on strike in late June by 8,500 banana workers , who came out both in solidarity with them as well as to demand a 60 per cent wage increase to offset the effects of the government 's March austerity plan . |
| 9 | Latest tests seem to indicate a 100 per cent correlation between certain modes of abduction imagery and the way the subject was born . |
| 10 | The USA had threatened to impose a 100 per cent retaliatory import tariff on some $165,000,000-worth of Japanese personal computers every year , unless Japan took action to implement the 1986 agreement ; it had , however , eventually agreed to give Japan another 18 months , until the end of 1992 , in which to build up US imports to the agreed 20 per cent market share . |
| 11 | In the Labour party , as in the TUC , the policy to impose a 5 per cent norm had provoked much fury , and the party conference in October heavily rejected the policy , even though Callaghan and Healey made it clear that they would ignore the views of the delegates . |
| 12 | However , Democrats in the House , led by the chairman of the Ways and Means committee , Dan Rostenkowski , drew up a plan to raise from 28 per cent to 33 per cent taxes on the most wealthy and to impose a 10 per cent surtax on incomes of more than $100,000 . |
| 13 | Obviously , to obtain a five per cent operating profit margin means they are marking up the cost price of products by far more than five per cent . |
| 14 | The Volkskammer rejected on June 28 a government plan announced in late May to impose an 11 per cent duty on imports from West Germany , in an effort to stabilize the country 's trade deficit . |
| 15 | Yesterday was the deadline for Bond Corp 's 58 per cent owned subsidiary , Bell Resources , to pay $24m to Corona Corporation , the Canadian gold group , to satisfy an option agreement under which Bell Resources was due to purchase a 7 per cent stake in Bond International Gold from Corona . |
| 16 | Parties had to exceed a 5 per cent threshold of votes in either the Czech Lands or Slovakia in order to win seats ; votes for unsuccessful parties were redistributed proportionally among successful ones . |
| 17 | Sweden , Austria and West Germany plan to cut total SO&sub2 ; emissions by between 65 and 70 per cent by the year 1995 and Sweden hopes to reach an 80 per cent reduction by the end of the century . |
| 18 | In July of this year the Taiyo Kobe Bank agreed to buy a 5 per cent stake in Credito Commerciale , a merchant banking subsidiary of the 500-year-old Monte dei Paschi di Siena . |
| 19 | Brent Chemicals is raising £15.6m from a one-for-four rights issue and is using the money to buy a 75.1 per cent share in the German metals finishing chemical supplier , Hebro , for £10.2m . |
| 20 | Despite the plant 's troubles , Fiat was reported on Aug. 22 to have confirmed its commitment to buy a 90 per cent stake in FSM , which manufactured the Fiat 500 model under licence . |
| 21 | Despite the plant 's troubles , Fiat was reported on Aug. 22 to have confirmed its commitment to buy a 90 per cent stake in FSM , which manufactured the Fiat 500 model under licence . |
| 22 | A coalition to buy a 51 per cent share of Koch Industries was trumped at the last moment when Charles approached the Marshall family , four per cent stakeholders , with an offer too good to reject . |
| 23 | On Oct. 11 the Italian vehicle manufacturing group FIAT agreed to buy a 51 per cent stake in its Polish associate , the car manufacturer Fabryka Samochodow Malolitrazowych ( FSM ) . |
| 24 | A " strategic partner " would then be sought to buy a 15 per cent stake . |
| 25 | It was hoped to reduce inflation , which was still running at over 6 per cent a year , to below 5 per cent , and to enforce a 4.5 per cent ceiling on public-sector wage increases . |
| 26 | Europe is trying to agree a 20 per cent cut in sulphur dioxide emissions and a freeze on emissions of oxides of nitrogen ( mainly from car exhausts ) . |
| 27 | The Cabinet also agreed to reduce cash allocations and other benefits to new immigrants , to reduce child allowances and to implement a 2 per cent across-the-board cut in spending by all ministries except Defence . |
| 28 | , The Mexican state oil company , Pemex , is to implement a 50 per cent cut in the lead content of its cheapest petrol . |
| 29 | American Trust , after a poor first half , has bounced back to report a 26 per cent leap in net asset value per share for the full year to 265.2p , from last year 's 210.3p . |
| 30 | THE DECISION to levy a 12 per cent tax on tickets for the national lottery for charities , the arts and sport drew an angry response from a national charities group . |