Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [adj] per " in BNC.
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| 1 | For each criterion sample tasks are illustrated together with success rates for the lowest 40 per cent of attainers ; difficulty factors and common errors are also pointed out . |
| 2 | The number of levels ranged from two to five , but only one scheme had a level designed for the lowest ten per cent of attainers . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Bowers , for example , reviews research indicating that speed falls from 55 to 45 km/h in such zones , with the associated implication that speeds for the fastest 15 per cent of drivers would be above 50 to 55 km/h . |
| 5 | For the other forty per cent I offered to go and collect him and as there were no other takers , I got the job . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | For the remaining 5 per cent of the year , they are allowed to exceed the standards by an unlimited amount . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | By 1985 it was recorded that the top 6 per cent of the population in income terms now received 25 per cent of national income , while for the poorest 20 per cent their share had actually fallen from even the 5.9 per cent they enjoyed in 1979 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It was they who caused a reluctant minister to accept , in 1963 , the introduction of an examination at 15 + other than O level ( the CSE examination ) specifically designed for the next 40 per cent of the ability range below the 20 per cent for whom 0 level was thought to be appropriate . |
| 17 | There is little difference between the 90 , 95 , 96 and 97 per cent maps ( Figs 6.5a-d ) , but between the 97 and-98 per cent maps a considerable region in the north-east corner of the map is lost ( Figs 6.5d-e ) . |
| 18 | The gap between the top 20 per cent . |
| 19 | Cockcroft stated that the list should " constitute by far the greater part of the syllabus of those pupils for whom CSE is not intended , that is , those pupils in about the lowest 40 per cent of the range of attainment in mathematics " . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Direct comparison of the results showed that the performance of the pupils in the project 's sample was extremely close to that of the lowest 40 per cent of attainers in the APU surveys . |
| 22 | The location and other characteristics of the schools associated with the project suggested that the sample of low attainers drawn from them would be representative of the lowest 40 per cent of attainers nationally . |
| 23 | Thus the redistribution in favour of the lowest 20 per cent shown in Table 3.24 is mainly but not exclusively for retirement pensioners . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ] . |
| 26 | The majority of the remaining 20 per cent are fed a complete and balanced dry dog food , such as Omega dog food . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | PowerGen was created out of the remaining 30 per cent of the power plant , thereby forming a competitor to the dominant supplier . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | There are now six machines that play at the standard of the best 30 per cent of rated players , and three in the class of the top 20 per cent . |