Example sentences of "[adj] to a [adj] per " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Is it not an appalling indictment of 13 years of this Government 's economic policy that yesterday one of Her Majesty 's coroners described the shortage of beds in one of Britain 's principal hospitals — a shortage that has led to the death of a pensioner from Southwark — as appalling due to a 2 per cent . |
| 4 | Most critically , the island 's main export crop , sugar , was expected to total only 5,500,000 tonnes in 1992 , compared with 7,600,000 tonnes in 1991 , due to a 30 per cent drop in fuel supplies since 1990 . |
| 5 | If you decided that you 're really only interested in long priced horses because you wanted win a large sum of money , so you only started looking at horses that were offered at fifty to one or longer odds than that , then if you look at the statistics then you 'll find that the rate of return on such bets is even lower than the rate of return that we 've quoted on football pools , but on the other hand if you look at horses which are offered , say , at odds-on or at very low odds , evens , two to one and things like that , then the rate of return is pretty close to a hundred per cent of your money . |
| 6 | Those resources are equivalent to a 44 per cent . |
| 7 | At that price an annual payment of £10 would be equivalent to a 20 per cent rate of interest . |
| 8 | We do operate a customer loyalty scheme , whereby any existing borrower who moves home and remortgages with us is entitled to a one per cent discount for one year . ’ |
| 9 | ALL employees and pensioners are now entitled to a 10 per cent discount on accommodation bookings , and a 5 per cent discount on conference bookings at world-wide , thanks to a Gold Crown Card agreement made by . |
| 10 | These were entitled to a 10 per cent preferential dividend and to participate with the ordinary shares equally in the surplus . |
| 11 | Does the right hon. Gentleman think it right that under the Tory council tax every millionaire who lives alone will be entitled to a 25 per cent . |
| 12 | Another practical consideration is the cost of art materials , and AOI members are automatically entitled to a ten per cent discount at one of their nationwide discount stores on production of their membership card . |