Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a 1 [unc] " in BNC.

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1 The gearing procedure will result in a 1 per cent .
2 Employees ' contributions should begin with a 1 per cent contribution from the first £1.00 of earnings .
3 This reduces to a 1 + a 2 + e .
4 However , Grundy ( 1986 ) , using data from the OPCS Longitudinal Study which is based on a 1 per cent sample of the 1971 Census linked to records from the 1981 Census , reports a similar pattern .
5 Finally , if the imbalance between Labour and Tory tabloids had been eliminated — so that equal numbers read Tory and Labour tabloids , then Labour would still have benefited from a 1 per cent swing .
6 Revenue from VAT , limited to a 1 per cent rate of VAT on a common base , was also transferred to the EC .
7 In fact one study ( Armstrong 1984 ) reports that over the last century in Britain each 4 per cent increase in hourly wage rates for males has been followed by a 1 per cent reduction in hours worked per year .
8 On Dec. 22 parliament approved budget cuts of about L 93,000,000 million ( about US$6,600 million ) for 1993 , this being immediately followed by a 1 per cent cut in the discount rate to 12 per cent .
9 Recent activity is explained by a 1 per cent shareholding , built by Fininvest , a Milan-based media group run by Silvo Berlusconi .
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