Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] 5 per " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact it took a series of political blunders on Callaghan 's part to spoil Labour 's chances of being re-elected , faute de mieux , as the responsible and sober ‘ party of government ’ : the seemingly endless postponement of the election while the party 's parliamentary position crumbled , requiring the prop of transparent chicanery ; the unenforceable wishful thinking of the 5 per cent pay limit , the last straw for the unions . |
| 2 | This page and View from City Road , Page 21 Dalgety stake : Como International , owned jointly by Elf Aquataine and Robert Holmes a Court , has reduced its holding below the 5 per cent level requiring disclosure . |
| 3 | Public-service workers in such unions as NUPE and NALGO objected to the effects of the 5 per cent pay norm on low-paid workers , and on 22 January a national strike of 24 hours was declared by public-service workers . |
| 4 | Yet , in April , the Executive Committee of the National Union of Textile Workers ( NUTW ) declared its intention of demanding a restoration of the 5 per cent on base wages lost in 1921 and that the cost of living addition should be altered every three months — an action which would benefit the textile workers . |
| 5 | The resulting test statistic is 5.49 , which has to be compared with 9.49 , the critical value under the chi-square distribution at the 5 per cent significance level with 4 degrees of freedom . |
| 6 | The IMF had in late June 1989 approved a drawing of 9,180,000 special drawing rights ( approximately USdollars 11,460,000 ) under the second annual structural adjustment programme ( ie part of a three-year plan agreed with the IMF in October 1987 ) , with objectives including tax reform , reform of the cotton sector , liberalization of price controls and foreign trade , reduction of the balance-of-payments deficit ( currently some USdollars 64,000,000 ) , the control of inflation within a 5 per cent ceiling , and boosting of real economic growth to 3 per cent . |
| 7 | Defending the increasingly indefensible policy of a 5 per cent pay norm led the government into growing difficulties . |
| 8 | Gaviria announced on Feb. 12 that a special tax would be levied on oil , coal , gas and nickel exports and on international telephone calls , in addition to a 5 per cent surcharge on income and other taxes ( from which low earners were to be exempt ) , in order to raise 50,000,000 pesos to establish special mobile brigades to combat the guerrillas and protect the country 's infrastructure . |
| 9 | First , any small party could link its lists , for the purposes of calculation of the 5 per cent rule , to the lists of a larger party , provided those two parties had not competed against each other in any Land ( the " piggyback " procedure ) . |
| 10 | The charges of a 5 per cent initial fee , 1.25 per cent annual , are standard . |
| 11 | The charges of a 5 per cent initial fee , 1.25 per cent annual , are standard . |
| 12 | The charges of a 5 per cent initial fee , 1.25 per cent annual , are standard . |
| 13 | The Court found that the application of a 5 per cent hurdle throughout Germany ( below which parties could not win representation ) would disadvantage smaller parties . |
| 14 | Barro obtains a value of 1.4 for his test statistic , which is less than the critical value under the F distribution with 3 and 19 degrees of freedom at the 5 per cent significance level . |
| 15 | Affecting the coal , oil , gas , petrochemical and metallurgical industries and the railways , it featured a package of incentives including a 5 per cent pay rise for workers for each percentage point by which monthly output in their enterprise exceeded average output in January-April 1991 , and the right of enterprises to sell for their own profit 10 per cent of their output on the domestic market . |
| 16 | He may have to change his tune if a swing to the right-wing Republicans shoves his beloved Free Democrats below the 5 per cent mark and so out of the Bundestag in the next elections . |
| 17 | These values are to be compared with 2.07 , the critical value at the 5 per cent significance level under the ‘ t ’ distribution with 22 degrees of freedom . |