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 . |