Example sentences of "[prep] a 2 [unc] cent " in BNC.

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1 For a 1 per cent concentration in the same amount of base oil , add 10 drops of essential oil ; for a 2 per cent concentration , add 20 drops and for 3 per cent , add 30 drops .
2 Many big chains had pushed for a 2 per cent reduction , but believe the 1 per cent cut could still help .
3 But there is also be a performance-related fee of 5 per cent , plus VAT , of any annual out-performance by the trust 's NAV of ‘ target performance ’ — which is defined as a 2 per cent margin over the Frank Russell 2000 Index , the standard index of US small company performance .
4 ( IRAS , incidentally , is now expected to last for 11 months , until Boxing Day , with a 2 per cent chance of surviving into 1984 . )
5 For example , our hypothetical Phillips curve shows that a 4 per cent per annum wage increase ( equivalent to 2 per cent inflation with a 2 per cent productivity growth ) is associated with a 3 per cent unemployment rate , and that a 9 per cent annum wage increase ( equivalent to 7 per cent inflation ) is associated with a 2 per cent unemployment rate .
6 For example , our hypothetical Phillips curve shows that a 4 per cent per annum wage increase ( equivalent to 2 per cent inflation with a 2 per cent productivity growth ) is associated with a 3 per cent unemployment rate , and that a 9 per cent annum wage increase ( equivalent to 7 per cent inflation ) is associated with a 2 per cent unemployment rate .
7 Norway offered a compromise formula in June , allowing EC trawlers increasing access as fish stocks grew , with a 2 per cent ceiling , in return for free access to the EC market .
8 Profits at Superdrug were little changed at £34.8 million , but the move to selling perfumes at discount prices was rewarded with a 2 per cent market share .
9 If tabloids had not existed , and all those who read Labour and Tory tabloids had behaved like those who read no paper regularly ( and depended exclusively on television for their news ) , then Labour would still have benefited from a 2 per cent swing .
10 On the other hand , Britain 's universities were afflicted from 1 98 1 with very severe cuts in their funding , amounting to a 2 per cent drop in income for most universities .
11 The UK accounted for the largest downward revision for GDP in 1991 , from a 0.5 per cent rise to a 2 per cent fall , noted Freeman .
12 Is it not an appalling indictment of 13 years of this Government 's economic policy that yesterday one of Her Majesty 's coroners described the shortage of beds in one of Britain 's principal hospitals — a shortage that has led to the death of a pensioner from Southwark — as appalling due to a 2 per cent .
13 Enticed by a 2 per cent incentive payment on top of the National Insurance rebate , some five million people have taken up the option since it was introduced in July 1988 .
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