Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] 1 per " in BNC.
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| 1 | This bulletin contains items about what happened to some of the other 1 per cent . ’ |
| 2 | The share of the richest 1 per cent has dropped from 69 per cent in 1911–13 to 42 per cent in 1960 , and now to 20 per cent . |
| 3 | Economists believe that the boost to the labour force may be worth an additional 1 per cent a year in the early 1990s . |
| 4 | Unfortunately shrinkage of revenue from these sources was not compensated for by growth of revenue from the notional 1 per cent VAT on a common base because consumption expenditures were accounting for a declining share of the GNP of the EC . |
| 5 | We shall take back from the richest 1 per cent . |
| 6 | Currently , the annual saving is in the region of £5 billion , only slightly more than the sum that the Government gave away in tax cuts to the richest 1 per cent of taxpayers in the 1988 budget . |
| 7 | The English figure climbed briefly to 9 per cent in the mid-nineteenth century and then fell back to a mere 1 per cent today . |
| 8 | Now 30 per cent of its junior management are women , although that figure falls away to a paltry 1 per cent at the highest levels . |
| 9 | Despite fears that the rebate would be cut in 1993 , the government has announced that for people over 30 it will continue to remain at its existing level of 5.8 per cent ( i.e. , 4.8 per cent which applies to everyone plus a special 1 per cent age-related addition ) . |
| 10 | The OECD 's bi-annual economic report Outlook , released on Dec. 19 , set growth in industrialized nations in the second half of 1991 at a mere 1 per cent annual rate ; in July the OECD had forecast a 2.4 per cent annual growth for this period . |