Example sentences of "[prep] a 5 [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | The budget was based around a forecast of zero growth in gross domestic product ( GDP ) in 1992 , after a 5 per cent GDP reduction in the severe recession in 1991 . |
| 2 | Defending the increasingly indefensible policy of a 5 per cent pay norm led the government into growing difficulties . |
| 3 | The charges of a 5 per cent initial fee , 1.25 per cent annual , are standard . |
| 4 | The charges of a 5 per cent initial fee , 1.25 per cent annual , are standard . |
| 5 | The charges of a 5 per cent initial fee , 1.25 per cent annual , are standard . |
| 6 | The Court found that the application of a 5 per cent hurdle throughout Germany ( below which parties could not win representation ) would disadvantage smaller parties . |
| 7 | Pearson , up 12p to 728p , was helped by a rumoured Kleinwort Benson upgrading , and Amersham International jumped 27p to 435p as Hoffman-La Roche , the Swiss group , emerged as a 5 per cent shareholder . |
| 8 | North of the Border , Barratt Construction held its own with a 5 per cent margin on turnover of £20 million , despite ‘ very difficult conditions ’ for UK contracting . |
| 9 | Affecting the coal , oil , gas , petrochemical and metallurgical industries and the railways , it featured a package of incentives including a 5 per cent pay rise for workers for each percentage point by which monthly output in their enterprise exceeded average output in January-April 1991 , and the right of enterprises to sell for their own profit 10 per cent of their output on the domestic market . |
| 10 | The IMF had in late June 1989 approved a drawing of 9,180,000 special drawing rights ( approximately USdollars 11,460,000 ) under the second annual structural adjustment programme ( ie part of a three-year plan agreed with the IMF in October 1987 ) , with objectives including tax reform , reform of the cotton sector , liberalization of price controls and foreign trade , reduction of the balance-of-payments deficit ( currently some USdollars 64,000,000 ) , the control of inflation within a 5 per cent ceiling , and boosting of real economic growth to 3 per cent . |
| 11 | February figures showed growth in bank and building society lending had slowed to a 5 per cent annual rate against 12.4 per cent a year ago . |
| 12 | Gaviria announced on Feb. 12 that a special tax would be levied on oil , coal , gas and nickel exports and on international telephone calls , in addition to a 5 per cent surcharge on income and other taxes ( from which low earners were to be exempt ) , in order to raise 50,000,000 pesos to establish special mobile brigades to combat the guerrillas and protect the country 's infrastructure . |
| 13 | In its 1990/91 survey of Turkey the OECD estimated that the loss of Iraqi and Kuwaiti markets for Turkish goods during the Gulf war and the trade embargo would lead to a 5 per cent fall in annual export earnings . |
| 14 | The Bush administration also moved on proposals for tax cuts , designed to appeal to middle-class voters hurt by the recession , and to counter a plan put forward by Senate finance committee chairman Lloyd Bentsen ( Democrat , Texas ) for tax cuts of $72,000 million over five years financed by a 5 per cent cut in defence spending . |