Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] [adj] per " in BNC.
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| 31 | The government subsequently altered its estimate of those able to claim and came up with a 50 per cent take-up rate . |
| 32 | The government subsequently altered its estimate of those able to claim and came up with a 50 per cent take-up rate . |
| 33 | Although both General Motors and Ford would like to forge a liason with Jaguar , that interest does not translate automatically into a 28 per cent increase in the share price in a week . |
| 34 | Jean-Marie Le Pen 's extreme right party is now expected to get only 12-13 per cent of the vote , slightly down from its 13.6 per cent in the regional elections but up on the 9.6 per cent it won in the last general election five years ago . |
| 35 | Some predict up to a five per cent average rise by the end of the year . |
| 36 | Inevitably difficult calvings cause a whole range of problems and here Mr Barwise-Munro remarked : ‘ Up to 2.5 per cent of first calving heifers involved in such circumstances die but with those which survive , many will suffer up to a 10 per cent drop in milk yield and consequently weaning weight of calves will be lower and of course there can also be major fertility problems in getting the cows back in calf . ’ |
| 37 | Ford later said that the Jaguar-GM talks had not affected its own plans ‘ Today 's announcement does not affect our view in any way , and we still plan to acquire up to a 15 per cent holding in Jaguar , ’ said a Ford spokesman in Detroit . |
| 38 | Once you are comfortable walking at the 60 per cent level , then experiment up to the 70–75 per cent level . |
| 39 | Inflation reached 4 per cent in 1989 , slightly over the 3.8 per cent registered in 1988 , while salaries rose by 4.3 per cent in real terms . |
| 40 | ‘ Still holding out for the twenty per cent , I see , Maurice . ’ |
| 41 | PAY rises are falling , with many deals now below the 3.7 per cent inflation rate , according to a new report . |
| 42 | PAY rises are falling , with many deals now below the 3.7 per cent inflation rate , according to a new report . |
| 43 | Obviously the snake arrangements required intervention by domestic monetary authorities when currencies looked likely to break out of the 2¼ per cent band . |
| 44 | Mr Neal has offered his own bill to check the Fed 's independence but only by requiring it to adopt policies that would eliminate US inflation , now in the 5 per cent range , by 1994 . |
| 45 | The net emissions of Germany 's power stations were reduced from 1.6 million tonnes to 0.5 million tonnes within five years , enabling it to go far beyond the 30 per cent Club target . |
| 46 | And the overall engineering figures seemed to have been held back by a ten per cent drop in the fourth quarter , pulling it down to the overall UK trend for the year of minus five per cent . |
| 47 | The predictions made by Johnson were tested by simulation studies , which showed that even for a 100 per cent packed file , if the discipline he recommended is adhered to , the average number of accesses can be kept down to 1.5 per retrieval , and for larger bucket sizes this is reduced to around 1.25 . |
| 48 | The re-formed Democratic Party of the Left ( PDS ) won 10.8 per cent and the Communist Refoundation ( RC ) 3.5 per cent , their combined vote being well below the 19.4 per cent for the Communist Party ( PCI ) in 1986 . |
| 49 | Even with a 25 per cent discount , single adults living alone in a property banded above D will pay more under the council tax than under the poll tax . |
| 50 | The economy was inflationary with private sector pay increases well above the 5 per cent limit . |
| 51 | Aggreko generator hire , Salvesen 's world market leader which provides power for customers from pop concerts to the oil industry , contributed strongly to a 37 per cent growth in trading profits in the industrial services division . |
| 52 | In addition , the number of β-galactosidase staining positive cells was also consistently above a few per cent of cells for the serum starved cells . |
| 53 | Virginia Matthews , Consumer Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph reckoned there were almost eleven million store cards in circulation in Britain in December 1989 with an average APR of 34.5 per cent which compared unfavourably with the 29.8 per cent charged by Barclaycard . |
| 54 | The Turkish-Cypriot zone was allocated 28.2 per cent of the island , instead of the 37 per cent occupied at present . |
| 55 | It means that the 55-60 per cent of the electorate who voted against the Conservatives will get what they voted for , instead of the 40-45 per cent who voted for the Tories , putting them in power for five more unfettered years . |
| 56 | The notification requirement applies at certain threshold levels , namely 10 per cent , 20 per cent , one-third , 50 per cent and two-thirds , although member states are given the option to have different thresholds in certain cases ( for example a 25 per cent threshold instead of the 20 per cent and one-third thresholds ) . |
| 57 | If you are already engaged in running a small business , you will probably hardly need reminding that the small companies ' rate of corporation tax is 25 per cent ( instead of the 33 per cent standard rate for larger concerns ) . |
| 58 | The trust at this stage had not one penny to its name but the Historic Buildings Council came forward with a ninety per cent grant for emergency works . |
| 59 | Apart from the 1 per cent who have their own private supplies , the great majority of the UK population rely upon the decisions of the water suppliers to ensure that the great bulk of the water we drink and cook with is ‘ wholesome ’ . |
| 60 | Coopers & Lybrand took issue with the official Red Book projections of growth rising to annualised 2 per cent rate in the second half of this year , climbing to 3½ per cent from 1993–94 to 1996–97 , and based its forecasts instead on a 2½ per cent growth rate . |