Example sentences of "[verb] to [art] [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 | After cooling , the mixture was incubated at 42°C for 60 minutes with 200 U of MMLV reverse transcriptase ( Bethesda Research Laboratories ) , 1 mM dNTPs ( United States Biochemical Crop. ) and 25 U of RNAsin ( Promega Biotec , Madison , WI ) in buffer ( 100 mM Tris HCl , pH 8.3 , 150 mM KCl , 6 mM MgCl 2 , 20 mM DTT ) The tubes were then heated to 95°C for 5–10 minutes , and 80 µl dH 2 O was added to the 20 µl of reaction mixture . |
| 5 | I am indebted to our Home Improvements Editor , David Holloway , for providing me with the following information relating to the 2.5 per cent VAT increase announced in the recent Budget . |
| 6 | Section three is a consolidated bid equating to the three per cent revenue development requested by Thomason Committee , and all committees earlier this year . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Christophe was extremely fit and used to the 100 per cent humidity , and had learnt a long time back to carry the absolute minimum — a battered still camera and two oranges for lunch — for a full day in the forest . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This reduces to a 1 + a 2 + e . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Low-income families are put at grave risk and local authorities are unable to administer the housing benefit system efficiently because they are tied to the 20 per cent . |
| 15 | In the same period , burglary in dwellings was up by 65 per cent. , compared to a 15 per cent . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A Washington survey , for example , showed that 38 per cent of those asked revealed that they had been a victim of a serious crime within the last year , compared to the 10 per cent revealed by police statistics . |
| 20 | On the question of voting rights , Hashimoto described as " regrettable " the fact that Germany , France , the United Kingdom and Japan together controlled only 8 per cent of the shareholder vote , compared to the 34.6 per cent controlled by the United States and Canada together . |
| 21 | The panel had also been over-optimistic on employment which fell by 3 per cent compared to the 2 per cent forecast . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I 'd be very surprised if he manages to keep to the 1.5 per cent increase in public sector pay . |
| 26 | DEMOCRAT Bill Clinton leapt to a 21 per cent lead over Bush in a major poll released yesterday . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In 1974 , the loss of FIS and the payment of tax and national insurance amounted to an 89 per cent marginal tax rate . |