Example sentences of "[prep] an [adj] per cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Herr Bjorn Engholm , head of the opposition Social Democrats , who only just managed to retain an overall majority in his Schleswig-Holstein constituency after an eight per cent drop in electoral fortunes , called for a ‘ national pact of common sense ’ with the ruling Christian Democrats . |
| 2 | As we have described the research was initiated following an 83 per cent increase in public referrals between 1985/86 and 1986/87 . |
| 3 | NU-SWIFT GROUP has put the finishing touches to France 's second biggest leveraged buyout , confirming yesterday the £218.7m sale of an 88.5 per cent stake in Compagnie Centrale Sicli . |
| 4 | The latest reduction , agreed after several days of wildcat strikes beginning on April 27 and involving some 250,000 employees , averted the prospect of a national strike in support also of an 8.5 per cent pay rise . |
| 5 | Violence , dishonesty , fire raising , indecency and drugs offences have risen 17.2 per cent since 1990 , compared with an 11 per cent Scottish average , said HM Chief Inspector Colin Sampson . |
| 6 | The Swiss romped home with an 83 per cent satisfaction rate . |
| 7 | Comparison of the C-terminal regions of DRP and the dystrophins ( Fig. 2 ) shows that this region is highly conserved with an 80 per cent exact match and about half of the remaining residues conserved . |
| 8 | Originally it was planned to bring the tax in in two stages starting with an eight per cent rise and then moving up to the full seventeen and a half . |
| 9 | On 21–22 February EC environment ministers considered an EC Commission proposal to phase out CFCs , halons , carbon tetrachloride and 1,1,1-trichloroethane by the end of 1995 , with an 85 per cent cut by the end of 1993 . |
| 10 | Since the second amendment to the articles of agreement the structure of the Fund has been defined as consisting not only of a board of governors , an executive board , and a managing director and staff , but also a council if it is called into being by a decision of the board of governors with an 85 per cent majority of total voting power . |
| 11 | Amid continuing stalemate the planned elections went ahead on Nov. 25 , with an 81 per cent turnout . |
| 12 | A patchy picture also emerges from the serious assault statistics , with an 8.5 per cent rise across the six forces surveyed driven primarily by the surge in Strathclyde . |
| 13 | Greece is last with an 86 per cent compliance rate . |
| 14 | The Liberal Democrats won Kincardine and Deeside with an 11.4 per cent swing from the Conservatives ; this gave the Liberal Democrats their 10th seat in Scotland , overtaking the Conservatives ( nine ) . |
| 15 | There is about an 80 per cent improvement rate after a relatively short course of treatment ( eight to ten weeks ) . |
| 16 | Seventeen records are to be stored as an 85 per cent packed direct file . |
| 17 | From the airline 's point of view , the gift ( disguised as an 8.8 per cent investment stake by BNP ) could therefore not have been more conveniently timed . |
| 18 | The budget kept within the overall expenditure limit set in 1988 , and provided for an 11.3 per cent increase in expenditure to ECU65,200 million , as compared with a rise of 19 per cent budgeted for 1991 . |
| 19 | The divergence between the two loading techniques depends on packing density , and for single record buckets it is almost 10 per cent — one record in ten — for an 85 per cent packed file . |
| 20 | HARD-UP nurses yesterday called for an 8.7 per cent rise — amid fears of pay curbs . |
| 21 | The measure was primarily designed to raise an additional US$500,000,000 to finance pay increases for 260,000 teachers ( on strike for over a month for an 800 per cent pay rise ) and 85,000 health workers ( on strike for three months for a minimum wage increase of 200 per cent ) . |
| 22 | In an 82.3 per cent turnout , 50.7 per cent of those voting on June 2 voted to reject the Maastricht Treaty — a margin of only 46,269 votes . |
| 23 | The Interior Ministry reported 97 per cent approval , in an 85 per cent turnout . |
| 24 | Until this meeting the provincial administration had refused to consider holding negotiations on the rent strike with anyone other than the township 's black councillors , who had been elected in an 11.5 per cent turnout in October 1988 [ see p. 36333 ] . |
| 25 | Official results in 13 of the country 's 23 voting regions showed eight had voted resoundingly against in an 80 per cent turnout . |
| 26 | In an 82 per cent turnout , Mr Ashdown 's Tory challenger , Mr Julian Davidson , polled 22,125 , a drop of just over a thousand on the Conservative share of the vote in 1987 . |
| 27 | The broader view based on cost benefit analysis ( taking all costs and benefits into account ) was still unacceptable to a government insisting on an 8 per cent direct investment return . |
| 28 | The forgoing calculations were made and represented graphically to give a return on an 8.9 per cent p.a. basis . |
| 29 | The 404 , designed by Michael Jackson and built by Parker , is the opposite of that , a fast trapeze centre-boarder suitable for youngsters when on an 80 per cent main , but which could test lightweight crews of any age with a full rig . |
| 30 | The actions of the central authorities , in the event , served to rally local opinion still more closely around the nationalist leaderships , and when the issue of full independence was put to the republican populations in the spring of 1991 it received overwhelming endorsement The Lithuanian vote , in February , produced a majority of over 90 per cent on an 84 per cent turnout ; in Latvia and Estonia , in March , there were majorities for independence of 74 and 78 per cent on a similar turnout . |