Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [adj] per " in BNC.
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| 1 | The VAT row gathered pace when the Treasury , after a series of Commons exchanges , confirmed that more than five million pensioners and others on low income will not be compensated in full for the planned 17.5 per cent rise in domestic fuel bills in 1995 . |
| 2 | For the other forty per cent I offered to go and collect him and as there were no other takers , I got the job . |
| 3 | For a further 20 per cent , the gap was between one month and six months and for the remaining 5 per cent it was over six months . |
| 4 | For the remaining 5 per cent of the year , they are allowed to exceed the standards by an unlimited amount . |
| 5 | The new ruling will keep the 95 per cent rule , but for the remaining 5 per cent of the time a new , tighter standard will be set . |
| 6 | They say that if you take one in five children , that 's twenty per cent of children , that probably eighteen per cent of children with special needs can be dealt with in ordinary schools and that there would still be need for special facilities for the remaining two per cent . |
| 7 | PREVIOUS whisky industry wisdom had it that Whyte & Mackay , largest minority shareholder of Invergordon Distillers since it made its hostile bid , was going to wait for yesterday 's results and , if they were sufficiently poor to drive down the share price , would then pounce for the remaining 8.8 per cent of shares to give it control . |
| 8 | The current trend towards ever higher emissions would be curbed by energy conservation ( accounting for around 43 per cent of the required reduction ) and a shift away from fossil fuels to renewable energy ( accounting for the remaining 57 per cent ) . |
| 9 | The examination , counting for the remaining 60 per cent , is based on questions relating texts to the overview given in the core : text in context . |
| 10 | The first stage of the transition to market prices would mean dividing prices into three categories : by the end of 1991 only 55 per cent of goods would be sold at fixed state prices , 30 per cent would be " regulated " , and prices for the remaining 15 per cent of goods would be freed completely . |
| 11 | The share of income paid in taxes was more or less proportional to income for most families ( about 20–5 per cent of income ) and then rose for the top 10 per cent of highest income earners . |
| 12 | The gap between the top 20 per cent . |
| 13 | It will offer holders of the outstanding 26 per cent of the PPFE capital the same terms and also make a fractionally higher cash offer than under the privatisation proposal to the larger number of warrantholders . |
| 14 | Detailed analysis of the remaining 75 per cent is not possible here but official statistics show that it relied heavily on soft markets desperate for basic manufactured goods . |
| 15 | The government would retain control through ownership of 66 per cent of voting shares ; private Mexican investors would remain eligible for ownership of the remaining 34 per cent of voting shares , as had been the case since the partial privatization of the banking system in 1987 [ see pp. 35635-36 ] . |
| 16 | The majority of the remaining 20 per cent are fed a complete and balanced dry dog food , such as Omega dog food . |
| 17 | Over 85 per cent are then lent out to borrowers on mortgage , part of the remaining 15 per cent is used to buy liquid assets , a small part stays with the society 's bank as an increased holding of immediate liquidity , against the increase in deposit liabilities . |
| 18 | PowerGen was created out of the remaining 30 per cent of the power plant , thereby forming a competitor to the dominant supplier . |
| 19 | Statistics show that three out of four carers are women — and most of the remaining twenty-five per cent who are men are caring for a wife rather than a parent . |
| 20 | These other variables are particularly relevant in the light of the estimated 60 per cent of working women with dependent children in 1987 ( OPCS , 1988 ) . |
| 21 | This devaluation was on top of the regular 1.8 per cent monthly " crawling devaluation " in place since October 1991 . |
| 22 | For Christ 's Hospital he designed the new grammar school ( 1793 , demolished ) — receiving a gratuity of 100 guineas ‘ for his great attention during the building ’ because he had charged at a rate of only 2½ per cent instead of the usual 5 per cent — and additions to the school in Hertford ( 1800 ) , and also made designs for various ambitious unexecuted schemes for redeveloping the main buildings . |
| 23 | Does he agree that to stimulate demand within the United Kingdom home market , where problems exist on the retail side , the industry is entitled to expect some special attention from the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the next Budget , which could include a reduction in or the total elimination of the appalling 10 per cent . |
| 24 | The SPD , whose leader Björn Engholm had offered to co-operate with the government on " specific issues " , countered Kohl 's proposal by insisting that a clear strategy and firm proposals were necessary before such talks could be worthwhile , and called notably for an extension of the temporary 7.5 per cent surcharge on income tax [ see p. 38109 ; pp. 38297-98 ] . |
| 25 | But we have always been looking for the cause of the extra 40 per cent . |
| 26 | This bulletin contains items about what happened to some of the other 1 per cent . ’ |
| 27 | The self-contained social circle of most farmers , commented upon in Chapter 3 , does not particularly lend itself to such empathy , but farmers will ignore the aspirations of the other 97 per cent of the population at their peril — and so , for that matter , will conservationists . |
| 28 | Seventy per cent of the college students were Black , a significant number of the other 30 per cent were active in the National Front . |
| 29 | The first round on March 24 had failed to produce a winner because the turnout had fallen well short of the required 50 per cent , but in the second round the required 25 per cent turnout was just exceeded . |
| 30 | Falling short of the necessary 75 per cent vote to approve the changes , the vote was 54 per cent in favour and 44 per cent against . |