Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun] 20 per " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , nearly 30 per cent of the men in Townsend 's sample in ‘ managerial ’ occupations regarded themselves as working class , and at the other end of the scale 20 per cent of Butler and Stokes ' ‘ unskilled manual ’ workers regarded themselves as middle class . |
| 2 | Abolition of the minimum 20 per cent contribution — which will be of particular help to young people — will be followed by an improved rebate system , with special help to retired people on low incomes living alone . |
| 3 | There should be immediate abolition of the minimum 20 per cent . |
| 4 | My hon. Friend the Member for Leyton ( Mr. Cohen ) yesterday asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Environment , the hon. Member for Salisbury ( Mr. Key ) , whether he would consider the abolition of the minimum 20 per cent . |
| 5 | Abolition of the minimum 20 per cent . |
| 6 | Turning now to the income-related benefits , as the House knows , the uprating is , in this respect , based not on the full retail prices index , but on what is known as the Rossi index , which , in essence , is the RPI less housing costs but which we have this year brought more exactly into line with what the benefits are intended to cover by including in the calculation 20 per cent . |
| 7 | Harry Groen , chairman of NCM Holding NV , said yesterday : ‘ In the Netherlands 20 per cent of domestic GDP is credit insured , in France 10 per cent . |
| 8 | In particular , he frames the question in terms of carrying income from the top 5 per cent of US families in 1974 ( average income $45 000 per annum ) to the bottom 20 per cent ( average income $28 000 ) . |
| 9 | He compared the cut in taxes for the rich to the bottom 20 per cent which had seen its tax burden rise form 30.7 per cent in 1979 to the present 39.7 per cent . |
| 10 | Remembering this principle will help you to concentrate your energies on the right 20 per cent of tasks , making these the ‘ A ’ priorities . |
| 11 | Given the fact that two-thirds of Germany 's electricity is generated by fossil-fuelled power stations , this could lead to an overall 20 per cent rise in carbon dioxide , as well as increases in sulphur dioxide . |
| 12 | The APU collection of questions was searched for items which conformed individually and collectively to the following criteria : — nearly all the items would have success rates between 60 per cent and 95 per cent nationally ; — all the items would have low omission rates among the bottom 20 per cent band of attainers nationally ; that is , they would not deter this group of pupils , who would be willing to " have a go " at them ; — overall , the items should cover a reasonable variety of topics , including basic ideas such as fractions , decimals , graphs ; and , — as far as possible the items selected would have a high incidence of a distinctive error or errors which would give them some diagnostic value . |