Example sentences of "[verb] on [art] [adj] per " in BNC.
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| 1 | The report noted that the industrialized countries could improve the lot of 1,100 million people living on an average per capita income equivalent to less than US$370 a year by increasing and targeting aid to countries committed to reducing poverty . |
| 2 | We certainly can not bank on the 49 per cent increase in the size of the Bar which has occurred in the last 10 years . |
| 3 | The shares are selling on a 25 per cent discount to assets and ‘ there is virtually no downside risk but at least 25 per cent upside potential ’ . |
| 4 | In response to a question in Parliament in 1984 , figures based on a 10 per cent sample were given of the comparative success rates of different types of representation . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Secondly the allowance for inflation was based on a three per cent price increase and because of the very competitive nature of the prices we receive for maintenance work a sum of two hundred and seventy thousand pounds can be carried forward into next year from this allowance , in other words the real purchasing power of the budget have been maintained and two hundred and seventy thousand pounds can be put aside to stand in the future . |
| 7 | SYDNEY ( Reuter ) — Australia 's airline pilots said they were withdrawing the 30 per cent pay claim at the heart of a dispute that has disrupted domestic air services and were seeking instead an unspecified rise based on a 25 per cent increase in productivity . |
| 8 | At a summit meeting in June US President Bush and Soviet President Gorbachev formally confirmed that a START treaty , which they expected to be completed by the end of 1990 , would be based on a 30 per cent overall cut in long-range nuclear missiles over a seven-year period . |
| 9 | ‘ We would have been happy to let the variable premium scheme that expired in April 1989 run forever , but the CAP reforms focused on a 30 per cent reduction in cereal prices over three years and the commission decided it was necessary to compensate beef farmers feeding cattle on grass , ’ he said . |
| 10 | The economy of the Cayman Islands continued to grow during 1989 and 1990 , building on the 16 per cent growth in gross domestic product ( GDP ) in real terms recorded in 1988 . |
| 11 | Government backbenchers effectively destroyed the Devolution Bill by insisting on the 40 per cent rule in the devolution referendum . |
| 12 | The broader view based on cost benefit analysis ( taking all costs and benefits into account ) was still unacceptable to a government insisting on an 8 per cent direct investment return . |
| 13 | The government and its supporters eventually accepted this but then insisted on a 75 per cent majority applying to regional issues , including the country 's future status as a unitary or a federal state . |
| 14 | This year the excitement has centred on the 23.7 per cent shareholding which Elders , the Australian group , has to cut to 9.9 per cent . |
| 15 | Working for patients proposes that regions , and eventually districts , will be funded on a weighted per capita basis ( with an allowance to the Thames regions for higher prices in London ) . |
| 16 | The company notes that the relocation exercise was carried out without the help of an independent specialist relocation company which may have been able to ease staffs ' fears about moving to a new area and so possibly improve on the 50 per cent retention rate . |