Example sentences of "[noun] with [art] [adj] per " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Often schoolchildren aged in their early teens , who struggle through a reading test with a 15 per cent error rate , reduce errors to 2 per cent and increase confidence visibly on first meeting a rule-based spelling . |
| 5 | He told ugly old women they would meet handsome young men soon , he told handsome young men they would meet large sums of money soon , he told dimwitted mothers that their sons would n't be coming home in nice wooden boxes from theatres of war with a 99 per cent casualty rate , he told collectors where they could locate that elusive antique backscratcher needed to complete a set . |
| 6 | The former economics professor conceded that his plan to replace six indirect taxes with a 15 per cent goods and services tax ( GST ) , which he had said was essential to make Australia competitive , had been unpopular . |
| 7 | Calculate the issue price of a new two-year bond with a 10 per cent coupon . |
| 8 | This is the price that a bond with a 9 per cent YTM will have on the next coupon payment date . |
| 9 | Consider a UK government bond with a 9.25 per cent coupon . |
| 10 | For example , our hypothetical Phillips curve shows that a 4 per cent per annum wage increase ( equivalent to 2 per cent inflation with a 2 per cent productivity growth ) is associated with a 3 per cent unemployment rate , and that a 9 per cent annum wage increase ( equivalent to 7 per cent inflation ) is associated with a 2 per cent unemployment rate . |
| 11 | HTV Group , the Swansea-based Independent Television contractor and fine arts dealer , beat all City forecasts with a 25.4 per cent increase in pre-tax profits to £18m in the year to 31 July . |
| 12 | A further meeting in April , at which the London Club steering committee rejected a Nigerian proposal to convert outstanding loans into 30-year bonds with a 3 per cent interest rate , was followed by the announcement that Nigeria intended unilaterally to cut interest payments on some of its debt to that level , from the agreed level of 9.5 per cent , with effect from May 1 . |
| 13 | This figure would include $800,000,000 in commercial credits , $400,000,000 in soft loans with a 1.75 per cent interest rate , repayable over 20 years , and $80,000,000 in social credits . |
| 14 | LASMO remains as operator of this block with a 33.85 per cent interest . |
| 15 | I note that the biggest single beneficiary is Scottish Opera with a 2.3 per cent increase for the coming year ; likewise , Scottish Ballet attracts the same increase . |
| 16 | ‘ We will use whatever influence we have to the full to ensure , for example , that you do n't tax middle-managers with a 49 per cent rate at £27,000 , and you do n't tax people above £40,000 with a combined 59 per cent rate . |
| 17 | Mr Ashdown said : ‘ Imposing 59 per cent tax rates incorporating NICs at £40,000 is very bad news indeed , in particular hitting middle management , not just middle-income earners with a 49 per cent tax rate at £27,000 . |
| 18 | Well , here we go into our first home game of the new season with a 100 per cent record so far in Division Three . |
| 19 | In principle , mergers can be referred to the MMC if they will create a firm with a 25 per cent market share or if they involve assets of over 30 million . |
| 20 | The club , which joined the league only four years ago , are the only one in all divisions with a 100 per cent record this season . |
| 21 | After the treatments , beauty products will be available at the clinic with a 15 per cent discount . |
| 22 | Labour won Langbaurgh with a 3.6 per cent swing from the Conservatives , in a campaign marred by alleged racial insinuations against the successful Labour candidate , Ashok Kumar . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Arsenic is very volatile and was unobtainable by ancient smelting techniques , but arsenic minerals commonly occur in association with copper ores and an alloy with a few per cent can be obtained by smelting these . |
| 25 | In division two , Hightown Club ( Dave Cochran ) kicked off as leaders with a 100 per cent record , but they lost both records in a 4-1 defeat against new leaders Moorgate Villa ( Robbie Waith 2 ) . |
| 26 | That , Mr Sampson said , gave rise for concern with a 15.7 per cent increase during the year , which compares with a 14 per cent rise for Scotland as a whole . |
| 27 | This was rejected on grounds of ease of use and familiarity with the 100 per cent marking scale . |
| 28 | But do n't be greedy : a fund with a 7 per cent to 8 per cent yield is likely to produce a much better capital gain over time than one with a higher yield . |
| 29 | The pensioner movement is only growing very slowly in Britain and it is hard to imagine the prosperous 20 per cent of pensioners feeling they had much in common with the 40 per cent who are completely dependent on state benefits . |
| 30 | The Soviet Union was the largest trader still outside GATT , ranking eighth in world export rankings with a 3.5 per cent share of international trade in goods . |