Example sentences of "[prep] a 30 per cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | SHARES in Turriff Corporation , the Midlands-based construction and plant hire group , put on 1p to 334p against the market trend on the announcement of a 30 per cent rise in pre-tax profits to £1.76m . |
| 2 | Wealth creation measures included the scrapping of a 30 per cent tax on money repatriated from abroad . |
| 3 | Germany has a target of a 30 per cent reduction by 2005 , France recommends cuts of up to 50 per cent by 2030 , Italy has made a parliamentary resolution for 20 per cent cuts by 2005 and Australia also is aiming for 20 per cent cuts by 2005 . |
| 4 | Despite a 30 per cent increase in petrol prices imposed in September , a debt rescheduling agreement signed with Japan in October , and a devaluation of the peso by 8.7 per cent on Oct. 31 , by November official forecasts predicted that the budget deficit would reach 60,000 million pesos at the end of 1990 . |
| 5 | About to join a battle royal with Britain and Germany over his ambitious plans for a 30 per cent increase in the EC budget , the last thing Mr Delors wanted was more tales of bogus food exports . |
| 6 | The shares were sold on to Canadian pension funds , but in February Lockwood retrieved them with backing from 3i , in return for a 30 per cent stake . |
| 7 | I understand that at the GATT negotiations , for example , we may eventually settle for a 30 per cent . |
| 8 | The consortium paid US$50,000,000 for a 30 per cent stake in Ikarus , with an option to increase the stake to 48 per cent . |
| 9 | Despite falling export earnings from oil products , government policy was blamed for modest growth of 2.9 per cent in 1991 , for annual inflation of 50 per cent , for a 30 per cent underemployment rate and the fact that an estimated 70 per cent of the population was living below the poverty line . |
| 10 | The principal points include : , setting a target for a 30 per cent reduction in global carbon dioxide emissions by the year 2005 ; , a total ban on the use of chlorofluorocarbons by 1994 ; , introducing an " energy tax " to encourage conservation of energy ; , adopting a system of marketable " permits to pollute " , which could be traded between companies ; , introducing road pricing and peak hour bans on cars in congested city centres ; , phasing out tax perks for company cars and replacing the Vehicle Excise Duty with a local authority tax on car use . |
| 11 | The State of California 's Air Resources Board has announced new regulations for petrol , providing for a 30 per cent cut in emissions of air pollutants . |
| 12 | Earlier , Mr Josselin said he would call for a 30 per cent increase in minimum prices imposed on imports at the EC fisheries meeting in Brussels . |
| 13 | The fisheries council meeting in Brussels decided to take no immediate steps to curb imports and rejected a French demand for a 30 per cent increase on minimum import charges . |
| 14 | The commission failed to support French demands for a 30 per cent higher minimum prices for imported fish . |
| 15 | At Helsinki in 1985 , the ‘ 30 per cent Club ’ became official with a 30 per cent Sulphur Protocol to the Convention . |
| 16 | A study in West Germany in 1978 said that , with a 30 per cent shortfall in supplies of the metal over a full year the country 's output of goods and services would fall by a quarter . |
| 17 | When asked to hold themselves accountable to their residents , local authorities chose instead to clobber them with a 30 per cent . |
| 18 | ‘ We 're comfortable with a 30 per cent position in Hong Kong , ’ Mr MacLeod said . |
| 19 | But with water shares expected to soar to a 30 per cent premium on the first day of trading , Mrs Ullman 's delay on the Tube could have cost her as much as £150 . |
| 20 | The introduction of the Mental Health Specific Grant has led to a 30 per cent increase in spending on mental health services , according to the SSI . |
| 21 | In response to government options presented to them , the banks agreed to ( i ) exchange US$6,600 million of old debt for new 30-year government bonds carrying a fixed interest rate of 6.75 per cent underwritten by the United States Treasury ; ( ii ) repurchase $1,500 million of debt instead of the $7,000 million the government had requested ; ( iii ) provide $5,700 million in fresh loans for investment in development ; ( iv ) the exchange of old debt for new government bonds offering temporary reductions in interest rates on $2,500 million ; ( v ) new bonds offering $1,630 million equal to a 30 per cent reduction in principal . |
| 22 | Most critically , the island 's main export crop , sugar , was expected to total only 5,500,000 tonnes in 1992 , compared with 7,600,000 tonnes in 1991 , due to a 30 per cent drop in fuel supplies since 1990 . |
| 23 | At a summit meeting in June US President Bush and Soviet President Gorbachev formally confirmed that a START treaty , which they expected to be completed by the end of 1990 , would be based on a 30 per cent overall cut in long-range nuclear missiles over a seven-year period . |
| 24 | ‘ We would have been happy to let the variable premium scheme that expired in April 1989 run forever , but the CAP reforms focused on a 30 per cent reduction in cereal prices over three years and the commission decided it was necessary to compensate beef farmers feeding cattle on grass , ’ he said . |
| 25 | The high costs placed on the licensee to retune millions of domestic VCRs and satellite receivers , plus a 30 per cent original programming starting base , is expected to deter a number of bidders . |
| 26 | This was partially offset by a 30 per cent increase in public-sector wages and those of the military . |