Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [num] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It began when four Hurricanes were scrambled at 0830 after a reported five Ju88s at 21,000 feet . |
| 2 | At the same time the non-TUC Association of Professional Ambulance Personnel voted by two to one against acceptance of a revised 9 per cent pay offer over 18 months . |
| 3 | Wolfgang Schäuble , parliamentary leader of the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) , had on Aug. 31 suggested that financing for the east should be raised by the introduction of a compulsory 5 per cent interest-free investment bond , repayable after 1996 , ( i ) for those earning over DM5,000 per month gross who had not bought special eastern solidarity bonds ; or ( ii ) for businesses with more than 20 employees which had not invested in the east . |
| 4 | Well this is part of a one million er £ er campaign to try and raise money for a lot of projects that we run in eight countries in southern Africa , from Angola to Mozambique , where our , the problems are absolutely horrendous er civil war in Mozambique for example , in Malawi , one in ten of the population are refugees , principally from Mozambiquan civil war , arriving at refugee camps in Bark and absolutely nothing er at all in terms of possessions . |
| 5 | In the 1960s , out of a higher total level of gold production ( which peaked in 1965 ) much less than 10 per cent reached the reserves , constituting an increase of a mere 3 per cent . |
| 6 | in farm incomes this year on top of a massive 21 per cent . |
| 7 | After this bold statement of intention , the Secretary of State , in subsequent instructions to the newly formed committee , showed some awareness of the contradictory requirements of a satisfactory 18 + examination . |
| 8 | On April 7 Mitterrand had announced the cancellation of a further 10 per cent of Poland 's US$5,200 million debt to France , Poland 's second largest creditor . |
| 9 | However , an attempt to satisfy donors on the exchange rate was made with the announcement of a further 17.3 per cent devaluation of the shilling on Dec. 3 , 1989 , to $1.00=TSh180 . |
| 10 | One month later , it raised taxes on some products and put a four-month freeze on the prices of a further 42 per cent of products . |
| 11 | The budget also contained funding for the acquisition of a further five B-2 Stealth bombers ( $5,500 million ) , an extra Trident submarine , the conversion of 12 MX intercontinental ballistic missiles into a rail-based mobile system and the continued development of the small Midgetman missile . |
| 12 | fall in investment in manufacturing industry and the CBI 's prediction of a further 4 per cent . |
| 13 | During the day , holders of a further 11.1 per cent of Armstrong shares ignored the chairman 's appeal and sold to Caparo . |
| 14 | The amount that is actually being re-used is perhaps rather larger than the public realises : PWMI estimates that 7.6 per cent of the EC 's total plastic waste of 10.7m tonnes is recycled , while the calorific value of a further 12.8 per cent is recovered by using waste as fuel . |
| 15 | González on March 7 authorized price rises for public-sector companies , including an increase in petrol prices of 124 per cent in water charges of 58 per cent retroactively to November 1989 , even though the state-run water company had already raised its prices by 87 per cent on Feb. 8 and in telephone charges , which had already risen on Feb. 8 by 112 per cent , of a further 300 per cent . |
| 16 | In 1986 the minister set BR the target of a further 25 per cent reduction by 1990 . |
| 17 | Is the Chief Secretary aware of the IMF prediction of a further 2 per cent . |
| 18 | Debt renegotiation talks during 1989 failed to achieve Venezuela 's target , proposed in July , of a 50 per cent cut in debt-service payments , and negotiations continued on the basis of a proposed 42 per cent reduction in payments for 1990 and a proposal by creditor banks to reschedule $21,200 million of debt over 17 years . |
| 19 | The most important amendment agreed as part of the compromise was the rescinding of a proposed 20 per cent tax on interest payments on consumer loans . |
| 20 | Data shows that the level fell from 0.6 parts per million [ ppm ] in 1970 to 0.3 ppm in 1973 , but remained the same for the next decade despite a huge 95 per cent reduction in the release of mercury into Liverpool Bay from ICI . |
| 21 | Growth of 2.2 per cent ( against a predicted 1.4 per cent for 1991 ) and a deficit of F89,500 million ( 1.26 per cent of gross domestic product ) was predicted . |
| 22 | But the employers persuaded them to hold off until 1966 , when they settled for a mere 5 per cent rise over the three years to 1969 . |
| 23 | The federal government 's 75 per cent share in Usiminas was sold for US$1,170 million , mostly to Brazilian investors ; the share of foreign capital accounted for a disappointing 5.9 per cent of the total . |
| 24 | His prophecy had proved to be correct , for the trade he brought her way currently accounted for a good thirty per cent of her income . |
| 25 | The evening paper flung aside violently and scattering into its separate half-dozen sheets accounted for a good fifty per cent of the chaos . |
| 26 | Direct-grant schools , formally independent but associated with the maintained system , accounted for a further 1.5 per cent . |
| 27 | Oil and sewage sources accounted for 20 per cent of the total ; agricultural and industrial sources for a further 10 per cent each . |
| 28 | Among the groups that have increased , the largest single cause of the increase was divorce , 60 per cent ; an increase in the numbers of single mothers accounted for a further 34 per cent , lone fathers just over 3 per cent and separated women just under 2 per cent . |
| 29 | Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors spokesman Peter Miller called for a further one per cent reduction on the stroke of midnight on New Year 's Eve . |
| 30 | In both cities men of £40-£99 accounted for a further 16–19 per cent . |