Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] [adj] per " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many people will not realise that there is a property element built in and that they qualify only for the 25 per cent . |
| 2 | And although the City Council has managed over the years to old council house rents down , I think for three years there was absolutely no rent increase and then only about a nine per cent increase , although we 've managed to hold council house rents down until |
| 3 | The challenge for Europe 's left parties will be to overcome party patriotism and work out how to construct majorities in the new era , for traditional parties of the right , also , can manage only about a 40 per cent turnout , if that . |
| 4 | Only after a 10 per cent . |
| 5 | Fifty-three were the sons of MPs ( 18 per cent , much like the 17 per cent of Liberals ) and twelve of these sat for the same seat , although few like Stanley Baldwin succeeded directly ; fifteen of these fifty-three were sons of Liberals , further evidence of the value of recruits brought over in 1886 . |
| 6 | The Deminex package includes LASMO 's interests in the Bruce , Keith and M fields together with a 25 per cent interest in block 16/12a containing the ‘ Tree ’ fields . |
| 7 | That , together with the 20 per cent or so the socialists were hoping to pick up , plus a few more votes taken from the Communists and the Centrists , could have made a respectably sized movement . |
| 8 | Because they had n't done any management , Debbie felt Landlords were entitled only to the 10 per cent tenant-finding fee and therefore owed her £2,400 ( 3 months ' rent plus the deposit ) . |
| 9 | Despite this concern , from the point of view of health care planning , the principle of funding authorities basically on a weighted per capita basis , with no allowance for cross-boundary flow , is to be welcomed . |
| 10 | The engineers at Dacia , cossetted perhaps by a 99 per cent share of the local market , offer no relief . |
| 11 | Although the Greens increased their share of the vote from 2.9 to 4.9 per cent , this left them just below the 5 per cent threshold required for representation . |
| 12 | He maintained that the rule was an essential concomitant of the poll tax because it was a personal tax , yet we are told that in respect of the council tax , which is also , at least as to 50 per cent. , a personal tax , there is no difficulty in doing away with the 20 per cent . |
| 13 | Initially the response was sparse , but following the sending of reminder letters , by the end of 1983 ( the ‘ closing date ’ ) , just over a 50 per cent response rate was reached . |
| 14 | SHAREHOLDERS in Pacific Horizon Investment must be congratulating themselves on their decision last August to switch the trust 's investment management from Jupiter Tyndall to Edinburgh 's Baillie Gifford , after news yesterday of a 38.8 per cent leap in net asset value per share at halfway , writes George Duthie . |
| 15 | PREMIER John Major hailed the start of economic recovery yesterday despite a nine per cent fall in retail sales . |
| 16 | The Swiss romped home with an 83 per cent satisfaction rate . |
| 17 | By the end of last week , Conservative strategists were talking about broadening Tory support still further from the 42 per cent achieved on Thursday . |
| 18 | These expansion moves were announced yesterday alongside a 22 per cent rise in Devenish 's profit to £14million for the year to September 30 . |
| 19 | THE pub and brewery industry , which employs thousands of people in East Anglia , hit out yesterday at the five per cent duty increase on most alcoholic drinks . |
| 20 | The latest reduction , agreed after several days of wildcat strikes beginning on April 27 and involving some 250,000 employees , averted the prospect of a national strike in support also of an 8.5 per cent pay rise . |
| 21 | Although both General Motors and Ford would like to forge a liason with Jaguar , that interest does not translate automatically into a 28 per cent increase in the share price in a week . |
| 22 | Inflation reached 4 per cent in 1989 , slightly over the 3.8 per cent registered in 1988 , while salaries rose by 4.3 per cent in real terms . |
| 23 | PAY rises are falling , with many deals now below the 3.7 per cent inflation rate , according to a new report . |
| 24 | PAY rises are falling , with many deals now below the 3.7 per cent inflation rate , according to a new report . |
| 25 | Mr Neal has offered his own bill to check the Fed 's independence but only by requiring it to adopt policies that would eliminate US inflation , now in the 5 per cent range , by 1994 . |
| 26 | The net emissions of Germany 's power stations were reduced from 1.6 million tonnes to 0.5 million tonnes within five years , enabling it to go far beyond the 30 per cent Club target . |
| 27 | The predictions made by Johnson were tested by simulation studies , which showed that even for a 100 per cent packed file , if the discipline he recommended is adhered to , the average number of accesses can be kept down to 1.5 per retrieval , and for larger bucket sizes this is reduced to around 1.25 . |
| 28 | The re-formed Democratic Party of the Left ( PDS ) won 10.8 per cent and the Communist Refoundation ( RC ) 3.5 per cent , their combined vote being well below the 19.4 per cent for the Communist Party ( PCI ) in 1986 . |
| 29 | Even with a 25 per cent discount , single adults living alone in a property banded above D will pay more under the council tax than under the poll tax . |
| 30 | The economy was inflationary with private sector pay increases well above the 5 per cent limit . |