Example sentences of "[prep] [art] top [adj] per " in BNC.
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| 1 | The share of income paid in taxes was more or less proportional to income for most families ( about 20–5 per cent of income ) and then rose for the top 10 per cent of highest income earners . |
| 2 | The gap between the top 20 per cent . |
| 3 | Since that time the productivity of the top 20 per cent of farmers has been sustained with a continuous record of technical improvement ; about 40 per cent have maintained a level of productivity which enables them to generate an acceptable income ; and a further 40 per cent have continued to produce enough for their own household 's subsistence requirements . |
| 4 | There are now six machines that play at the standard of the best 30 per cent of rated players , and three in the class of the top 20 per cent . |
| 5 | Reporting between 1976 and 1979 it showed how the share of the before-tax distribution of wealth of the top ten per cent had fallen from nearly 30 per cent in 1959 to 26.6 per cent in 1974–5 . |
| 6 | Certainly , professional and managerial groups enjoy higher levels of consumption property , but the bulk of them fall well below the top 5 per cent who own 40 per cent of assets . |
| 7 | One industry observer , Bill Welter. a consultant to Applied Concepts , believes that by 1983 there will be three chess calculators available that will be good enough to play against the top 5 per cent of rated players . |
| 8 | But even then you see you 're dealing with the top fifty per cent of the population . |
| 9 | John Clarke of Swinden , for one , must have been a gentleman , with his income of £10 a year , yet his moveables were valued at no more than 30s. , with which he only just scraped into the top 20 per cent . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | She studied law , was called to the Bar in 1974 , and — falling within the top 5 per cent of all people who have ever been psychometrically tested for verbal critical reasoning skills — would have made a marvellous lawyer . |
| 12 | In other words , the supposedly modest Sun is in the top 5 per cent of all stars in the Galaxy . |
| 13 | Is in the top 5 per cent of UK managers , but has n't the faintest idea how good she is . |
| 14 | Last year he took part in the London race along with 27,000 others , being placed in the top six per cent at number 1,442 . |
| 15 | ‘ In the top five per cent of his class , so he tells me . ’ |
| 16 | That would place him in the top 1/2 per cent of intelligence for this country . |
| 17 | The criteria for inclusion are complicated , but basically the doctors were looking for men in the top 10 per cent of overall risk . |
| 18 | The comprehensive schools , in a perfectly adjusted system , should have had 20 per cent of their pupils in the top 20 per cent of the ability range : in fact , they had only 15 per cent and one-quarter of the schools had less than 5 per cent . |
| 19 | The South does n't stand out in the resulting map ( figure 5.2 ) , although none of the States of the former Confederacy falls in the top 40 per cent on their ranking , except Florida whose population character and structure has changed very substantially in recent decades as a result of immigration , especially of the elderly . |
| 20 | Again and again in the past two or three years , Mr Smith quelled dissent by saying that only his policy of studied respectability and his concentration of tax upon the top 20 per cent of voters could win . |
| 21 | ‘ Overall this is a paper aimed at the top 15 per cent of children . |
| 22 | Overall this is a paper aimed at the top 15 per cent of children . |
| 23 | More than 21 per cent of spending is by the top 10 per cent by income . |
| 24 | The gains recorded by the top 10 per cent of households amounted to 40 a week , mostly in lower taxes , while the middle income groups were little affected and the poorer ones lost over 10 a week in benefits and higher VAT . |
| 25 | The recovery programme was to be paid for by reversing the tax gains made by the top 5 per cent of earners under the Conservatives , although specific details were not published , and by reversing the 2p cut in the basic rate of income tax proposed in the 1987 Conservative Budget . |