Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] 50 per " in BNC.

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1 The voluntary agreement commits the industry to a 50 per cent .
2 They were to be abolished as part of a 50 per cent reduction in the armed forces .
3 For the sake of the 50 per cent who have resisted the urge to cheat , the fight against drugs in sport must get its act together .
4 The remaining employers , during the negotiations which followed the mass meeting of 31 August and the threat of a strike , were still sticking at a compromise formula , one which Amelia McLean , putting the women 's case in The Vote , said she was prepared to accept , viz : a five-year ban on women entrants from 1 January 1911 , and the establishment of a 50 per cent distribution of Monotype keyboards between men and women .
5 This is obviously a gross distortion of the 50 per cent ratio that we expect .
6 This was due in part to the 50 per cent fall in coffee prices after the breakdown in talks at a meeting of the International Coffee Organization ( ICO ) in July 1989 [ see p. 36836 ] .
7 Part K , adopted by 134 votes to none with 18 abstentions ( the 16 members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization — NATO — Japan and Israel ) urged the United States and the Soviet Union to conclude a treaty for a 50 per cent reduction in strategic nuclear weapons .
8 On July 23 , representatives of Zambia 's creditor countries , meeting in Paris , agreed in outline on a 50 per cent debt reduction scheme , the details of which were yet to be decided .
9 We are not in the business of putting on the backs of the poor the cost of the 50 per cent .
10 But the company has an opportunity to make other gains through a 50 per cent stake it has secured with BP in five surrounding blocks where an intensive exploration programme will begin later this year in an attempt to discover other ‘ elephant ’ fields .
11 News broke in late June about a 50 per cent reduction in Japanese duty on imported spirits .
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