Example sentences of "[verb] to a [num] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government is committed to a 60 per cent reduction over the same period . |
| 2 | But with water shares expected to soar to a 30 per cent premium on the first day of trading , Mrs Ullman 's delay on the Tube could have cost her as much as £150 . |
| 3 | Up to five µl of the final cDNA synthesis reaction could be added to a 100 µl PCR reaction without inhibiting amplification . |
| 4 | The employers , i.e. the federal government , Länder ( states ) and local government , then agreed to a 5.4 per cent pay increase plus extra payments to the lower paid . |
| 5 | The government agreed to a 100 per cent pay increase , to meet demands for job security , to index wages to inflation , to set up an inquiry into the current salaries of health workers and teachers , to reinstate all workers dismissed since March , and to involve the unions in revising the Civil Service Law . |
| 6 | UK industry has already agreed to an 85 per cent interim cut in CFCs and carbon tetrachloride for 1993 and representatives of user industries and manufacturers have been meeting Department of the Environment officials to discuss the practicalities of cutting 1,1,1-trichloroethane and halons . |
| 7 | On the other hand , Britain 's universities were afflicted from 1 98 1 with very severe cuts in their funding , amounting to a 2 per cent drop in income for most universities . |
| 8 | This reduces to a 1 + a 2 + e . |
| 9 | February figures showed growth in bank and building society lending had slowed to a 5 per cent annual rate against 12.4 per cent a year ago . |
| 10 | In the same period , burglary in dwellings was up by 65 per cent. , compared to a 15 per cent . |
| 11 | Between 1959 and 1977 , the number of female offenders per 100,000 of the population aged 14 to under 17 increased by 379 per cent ( compared to a 148 per cent increase for males of the same age group ) . |
| 12 | The statistics , based on the final season before the Premier League split , show an average turnstile increase of 17 per cent and reveal ticket prices rocketed four fold since 197879 compared to a 2.6 per cent rise in the general retail price index . |
| 13 | The number of under 10 year olds killed or seriously injured each year has fallen by 37 per cent from 1976–86 in Britain , compared to a 7.5 per cent reduction for all age groups . |
| 14 | Over the long term there has been an ‘ age-migration ’ of the accident statistics , whereby the number of under-15s killed per annum has fallen by 61 per cent from 1927–82 compared to an 80 per cent increase for the 15–24 year old group . |
| 15 | East Africa , Greece and South East Asia all contributed to an 11 per cent rise in pre-tax profits in the half-year to end-November . |
| 16 | In advancing northward from Nebraska to Manitoba during the period , from 1920 to 1980 , the hard red winter wheat adapted to a 20 per cent decrease in mean annual precipitation , a 4.2 °C decrease in the mean annual temperature and a 10-day decrease in the length of the frost-free season . |
| 17 | DEMOCRAT Bill Clinton leapt to a 21 per cent lead over Bush in a major poll released yesterday . |
| 18 | They conclude that the effect of market share upon ROI is much less than earlier studies showed and that , broadly , a 1 per cent increase in market share led to a 0.1 per cent increase in ROI rather than the 0.5 per cent earlier supposed . |
| 19 | Thus it was that the 30 mph ( 50 km/h ) speed limit in built up areas led to a 50 per cent reduction in pedestrian deaths in London by 1935 . |
| 20 | Declining consumption of coal , oil and gas led to a 3 per cent fall in the UK 's carbon dioxide emissions , to 156 million tonnes , in 1992 . |
| 21 | In 1974 , the loss of FIS and the payment of tax and national insurance amounted to an 89 per cent marginal tax rate . |
| 22 | Revenue from VAT , limited to a 1 per cent rate of VAT on a common base , was also transferred to the EC . |
| 23 | A 10 per cent rise in money supply will lead to a 10 per cent rise in prices and a 10 per cent depreciation of the exchange rate ( assuming no inflation abroad ) . |
| 24 | In its 1990/91 survey of Turkey the OECD estimated that the loss of Iraqi and Kuwaiti markets for Turkish goods during the Gulf war and the trade embargo would lead to a 5 per cent fall in annual export earnings . |
| 25 | In the circumstances , it is not clear what will be considered ‘ unreasonable ’ but , for a DHA with a fixed budget , even a 10 per cent increase in prices would lead to a 9 per cent decrease in services which could be purchased — a serious blow to planning . |
| 26 | Can he tell the House something about the agreement made on 13 December by his right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment , which I understand will lead to a 6 per cent . |
| 27 | An improved diet may lead to a 15-20 per cent reduction . |
| 28 | Spanish workers voted heavily Socialist in the European parliamentary elections even though Mr Gonzalez 's tight economic policies has led to a 17.3 per cent jobless rate and running battles with the trade unions . |
| 29 | This practice , according to the Insurance Service , has led to a 20 per cent jump in windscreen replacement claims to insurance companies since 1 January — a rise which could eventually push up premiums . |
| 30 | The introduction of the Mental Health Specific Grant has led to a 30 per cent increase in spending on mental health services , according to the SSI . |