Example sentences of "[prep] a 1 [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , in the event of a 1 per cent fall in the market rate , the return of the security is expected to decrease by less than 1 per cent . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Securities with betas less than 1 are called defensive shares as a 1 per cent increase in the expected market rate of return is likely to yield a less than 1 per cent increase in the expected rate of return of the security . |
| 4 | Earlier this year AMP acquired London Life , the mutual British life insurer , for just £15m which , with its own operations in the UK , gives it about a 1 per cent market share . |
| 5 | The Steelworkers , financing their programme through a 1 per cent levy on union dues , provided training for reps in fighting union-busting methods in the early 1930s ; by 1985 , they had developed a full two-day residential course on ‘ Facing Management ’ , which includes introduction exercises , and a role play ( ‘ Handle with Care ’ ) on productivity bargaining ; the course also looks at Japanese management methods , quality circles and technological change . |
| 6 | So even on this minimal change scenario , eliminating the imbalance in tabloid partisanship would be worth a 1 per cent swing to Labour . |
| 7 | Employees ' contributions should begin with a 1 per cent contribution from the first £1.00 of earnings . |
| 8 | Finally , if the imbalance between Labour and Tory tabloids had been eliminated — so that equal numbers read Tory and Labour tabloids , then Labour would still have benefited from a 1 per cent swing . |
| 9 | The gearing procedure will result in a 1 per cent . |
| 10 | The bill would have limited textile imports to a 1 per cent annual increase , and set quotas for most shoe imports at 1989 levels . |
| 11 | Revenue from VAT , limited to a 1 per cent rate of VAT on a common base , was also transferred to the EC . |
| 12 | However , Grundy ( 1986 ) , using data from the OPCS Longitudinal Study which is based on a 1 per cent sample of the 1971 Census linked to records from the 1981 Census , reports a similar pattern . |
| 13 | Switches can always be made although a charge of £10 plus a 1 per cent bid/offer spread would be payable . |
| 14 | Recent activity is explained by a 1 per cent shareholding , built by Fininvest , a Milan-based media group run by Silvo Berlusconi . |
| 15 | In fact one study ( Armstrong 1984 ) reports that over the last century in Britain each 4 per cent increase in hourly wage rates for males has been followed by a 1 per cent reduction in hours worked per year . |
| 16 | On Dec. 22 parliament approved budget cuts of about L 93,000,000 million ( about US$6,600 million ) for 1993 , this being immediately followed by a 1 per cent cut in the discount rate to 12 per cent . |