Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] [adj] per " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the reject results the same calculations are done on the unshaded area giving revised probabilities of 0.32 for the 10 per cent and 0.68 for the 2 per cent levels . |
| 2 | " Many ofthe people I need to work with are now in America because their tax rate is around half of the 60 per cent they have to fork out in Britain , " he explained . |
| 3 | The introduction on Oct. 22 of a 10 per cent general consumption tax ( GCT ) provoked widespread criticism from the political opposition and scepticism from the business community . |
| 4 | Such a plea , although laudable , has little chance of becoming reality in the present organizational set-up , for it ignores the semantic difference in the uniformed ‘ polis 's ’ role and that of the 10–15 per cent of the institution who form the élite in the CID . |
| 5 | Year-to-year variations in sulphur dioxide concentrations occur such as the 1 per cent increase between 1987 and 1988 and the 3 per cent decrease between 1988 and 1989 . |
| 6 | Does the Chancellor agree that our abysmal economic growth performance since the Government took office in 1979 is due largely to the dismal performance of British manufacturing industry , and that the forecast for the year 1991 of a 15 per cent . |
| 7 | At Helsinki in 1985 , the ‘ 30 per cent Club ’ became official with a 30 per cent Sulphur Protocol to the Convention . |
| 8 | I am grateful for my hon. Friend 's second point , because it is not yet widely understood by the three quarters of people who go into retirement with savings of their own that , as they approach retirement , their ability to build up those savings would be subject to a 9 per cent . |
| 9 | The income level subject to the 1.45 per cent Medicare payroll tax was increased from $51,300 to $125,000 . |
| 10 | In one particular alone , the Scott Report disclosed that 40 million rounds of small arms ammunition had been delivered in fourteen months , which was totally inconsistent with the 15 per cent claim . |
| 11 | ‘ We 're comfortable with a 30 per cent position in Hong Kong , ’ Mr MacLeod said . |
| 12 | Inexperienced readers must be cautioned against some of the author 's conclusions which are scientifically premature — eg ‘ enzymic degradation of microbial polyesters is unaffected by crystallinity ’ — and some which are not precise — eg ‘ P ( 3HB- co -3HV ) copolymers become very soft in the 30–60 per cent 3HV composition range ’ . |
| 13 | I do not know how he reconciles that with the 59 per cent . |
| 14 | Pendle , the Lancashire marginal where the poll tax was a major issue in the campaign , fell to Labour with a five per cent swing . |
| 15 | For the reject results the same calculations are done on the unshaded area giving revised probabilities of 0.32 for the 10 per cent and 0.68 for the 2 per cent levels . |
| 16 | In view of the CBI 's projected figure for 1992 of a 4.4 per cent . |
| 17 | Swings were highest amongst those who relied more on television than the press for help in deciding how to vote , rather lower amongst those who relied more on the press , and lowest of all amongst the 40 per cent of the electorate who found television and the press equally useful . |
| 18 | The workers at Hawick , Galashiels , Earlston , Berwick and Arbroath voted 732 to 670 against a 4 per cent pay rise plus an extra day 's holiday by 732 votes to 670 . |
| 19 | However , the figure was still well above the 5.5 per cent recommended by the Central Bank and the Finance Ministry and rested on an assumption that some US$2,000 million in United States bank loans would be forthcoming . |
| 20 | I think I mean it was interesting cos someone said earlier about people coming in I mean once you get them in I mean I always feel it 's like the pantomime each year which is an amateur pantomime yet the actual people coming in to see that I mean it 's well in the ninety per cent 's and you talk to people when they come to see the pantomime and ver invariably the the mum 's or dad 's say no I do n't normally come to theatre but I come to the pantomime and they enjoy it very much and when you talk to them they can say well what you think of it ? |
| 21 | In response to government options presented to them , the banks agreed to ( i ) exchange US$6,600 million of old debt for new 30-year government bonds carrying a fixed interest rate of 6.75 per cent underwritten by the United States Treasury ; ( ii ) repurchase $1,500 million of debt instead of the $7,000 million the government had requested ; ( iii ) provide $5,700 million in fresh loans for investment in development ; ( iv ) the exchange of old debt for new government bonds offering temporary reductions in interest rates on $2,500 million ; ( v ) new bonds offering $1,630 million equal to a 30 per cent reduction in principal . |
| 22 | Banking stoppages begun in February resulted in agreement on April 4 on a 5.4 per cent pay increase , backdated to Feb. 1 and applicable for 13 months , plus a one-off payment of DM |
| 23 | The true proportion of people worth less than £2 in the vale was probably closer to the 32.7 per cent in Barton near Bristol hundred than to the 14.8 per cent in Whitstone , just south of Gloucester . |
| 24 | These savings amount to roughly £1 billion for every 1 per cent cut in the base rate . |
| 25 | Today , weeds are responsible for a 12 per cent reduction in the world 's harvests . |
| 26 | The 0 coefficients vary between 0.44 and 0.67 for the 50 per cent pass mark and between 0.44 and 0.74 for the 70 per cent pass mark . |
| 27 | The population of England and Wales was undergoing a further massive increase — nothing short of a fifty per cent rise in the years from 1801 to 1831 — and the effects of the recent Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions hardly needed a post-war depression to make matters even worse for the poor . |
| 28 | The compact was on this occasion approved by 4,633 votes ( 59.8 per cent ) to 2,988 ( 38.6 per cent ) but , as on previous occasions , the level of approval fell short of the 75 per cent necessary to amend the Constitution as required by the terms of the compact . |
| 29 | As it is , the swing to Labour was a feeble 2.1 per cent , scarcely more than it achieved in 1987 , and well short of the 5.2 per cent to the Tories which brought Mrs Thatcher to power in 1979 . |
| 30 | But Labour — while winning a net 39 seats — achieved only a 2.1 per cent swing , well short of the eight per cent needed to achieve outright victory . |