Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] [adj] per " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Managers say that prudent lending and a close knowledge of local people are the reasons for a 34 per cent leap in net profits . |
| 2 | A planned budget for 1991 estimated at $80,000 million contained provision for a 15.7 per cent rise for the social sector and one of 41.2 per cent for the controversial National Solidarity ( Pronasol ) anti-poverty programme [ see below ] which had a budget of $1,000 million in 1990 . |
| 3 | I intend to concentrate on provision for the 18 per cent unstatemented pupils who remain in mainstream schools but who , as Warnock reminded us , have special needs . |
| 4 | I wish to make a simple plea about the 20 per cent . |
| 5 | Mr Parkinson recently signalled ministerial concern by blocking BR 's plans for a 14 per cent fare rise in February . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In contrast with the opposition 's plans for a 15 per cent " consumption tax " , there would also be personal tax cuts , giving three-quarters of taxpayers a top tax rate of 30 per cent , totalling A$3,400 million in 1994-95 and A$5,200 million in 1995-96 . |
| 8 | The listing , which is to raise £4.8m through a 38.5 per cent placing , will give the club a market capitalisation of £13m , worth about the same as Tottenham Hotspur , the only other English football club to be publicly owned . |
| 9 | Hopes of the Economy Minister , Domingo Cavallo , for quick progress in talks begun in January over the Argentina 's foreign debt received a setback in mid-February when creditor banks rejected his requests for a 40 per cent cut in the country 's US$31,000 million commercial bank debt , under the terms of the 1989 Brady debt reduction plan [ see pp. 36541-42 ] . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | One of the main facilitators for community involvement is what has become known in I B M as the ten per cent scheme . |
| 12 | Oil and petroleum workers threatened industrial action in support of demands for a 310 per cent salary adjustment , for an end to plans to privatize the state oil company PETROBRAS , and the reinstatement of 800 colleagues dismissed in government cutbacks . |
| 13 | IG Metall had opened region-by-region negotiations in this sector on March 4 but employers rejected demands for a 9.5 per cent increase , offering instead 3.3 per cent . |
| 14 | The commission failed to support French demands for a 30 per cent higher minimum prices for imported fish . |
| 15 | The most serious industrial disruption was a strike by 1,700 miners in Morocco 's largest coalfield at Jerada , 450 km east of Rabat , which began in mid-December 1988 with demands for a 20 per cent wage increase . |
| 16 | The surge of inquiries for new cars after the five per cent tax cut in the Budget was subdued by election uncertainty ; it should now become a flow of firm orders . |
| 17 | In fact it took a series of political blunders on Callaghan 's part to spoil Labour 's chances of being re-elected , faute de mieux , as the responsible and sober ‘ party of government ’ : the seemingly endless postponement of the election while the party 's parliamentary position crumbled , requiring the prop of transparent chicanery ; the unenforceable wishful thinking of the 5 per cent pay limit , the last straw for the unions . |
| 18 | Mr John Prescott , Labour 's transport spokesman , condemned government transport policies , saying signalling staff cuts were a direct result of the 51 per cent cut in BR finances in the past five years . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , the Government was heading for more conflict after its confirmation of a 1.5 per cent public-sector pay rise led to protests from teachers and health workers . |
| 20 | The consortium described the agreement as " a back-handed deal " which did nothing to secure the future of the 2 per cent of lowland bogs which survive in England in a semi-natural state with rare plants and animals . |
| 21 | This page and View from City Road , Page 21 Dalgety stake : Como International , owned jointly by Elf Aquataine and Robert Holmes a Court , has reduced its holding below the 5 per cent level requiring disclosure . |
| 22 | The effect of the 25 per cent reduction in fares would be to place an inordinate burden on the ratepayers , particularly because this would be accompanied by a known loss of rate support grant . |
| 23 | Early explanations of frost weathering alighted on the simple and seemingly obvious effect of the 9 per cent volume expansion which accompanies the phase change from water to ice . |
| 24 | In the light of the 86 per cent . |
| 25 | The hard campaigning continued and two years later , in 1985 , 21 countries signed the Helsinki Protocol , a legally binding agreement equivalent to the demands of the Thirty Per Cent Club . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | We have gone from being the bread basket of Central America to being its basket case ; an international beggar with the largest per capita foreign debt in Latin America . |
| 28 | Manchester City ( £5.48 ) offered the cheapest average top-flight entrance fee , while near-neighbours Oldham hit their supporters with a 67 per cent increase to an average £6.39 , after winning promotion . |
| 29 | Below 60 per cent the exercise will not have an aerobic effect and only very fit people can gain any aerobic effect above the 85 per cent level ( see Table 3 ) . |
| 30 | At the same time , all EC currencies would move together as a bloc within the 4½ per cent Smithsonian band of fluctuation against the dollar ( the ‘ tunnel ’ ) . |