Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | By the end of last week , Conservative strategists were talking about broadening Tory support still further from the 42 per cent achieved on Thursday . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | PAY rises are falling , with many deals now below the 3.7 per cent inflation rate , according to a new report . |
| 11 | PAY rises are falling , with many deals now below the 3.7 per cent inflation rate , according to a new report . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The economy was inflationary with private sector pay increases well above the 5 per cent limit . |
| 16 | Virginia Matthews , Consumer Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph reckoned there were almost eleven million store cards in circulation in Britain in December 1989 with an average APR of 34.5 per cent which compared unfavourably with the 29.8 per cent charged by Barclaycard . |
| 17 | The Turkish-Cypriot zone was allocated 28.2 per cent of the island , instead of the 37 per cent occupied at present . |
| 18 | It means that the 55-60 per cent of the electorate who voted against the Conservatives will get what they voted for , instead of the 40-45 per cent who voted for the Tories , putting them in power for five more unfettered years . |
| 19 | The notification requirement applies at certain threshold levels , namely 10 per cent , 20 per cent , one-third , 50 per cent and two-thirds , although member states are given the option to have different thresholds in certain cases ( for example a 25 per cent threshold instead of the 20 per cent and one-third thresholds ) . |
| 20 | If you are already engaged in running a small business , you will probably hardly need reminding that the small companies ' rate of corporation tax is 25 per cent ( instead of the 33 per cent standard rate for larger concerns ) . |
| 21 | Apart from the 1 per cent who have their own private supplies , the great majority of the UK population rely upon the decisions of the water suppliers to ensure that the great bulk of the water we drink and cook with is ‘ wholesome ’ . |
| 22 | But as the tables show , if interest rates rise again to the 15.4 per cent level of three years ago , this would double to £20 a month . |
| 23 | But all those optimistic forecasts have been catastrophically wrong and the doomsters proved right , after all Britain has instead suffered the most severe and unremitting recession of the postwar period : and there is no evidence , even now , that the economy has bottomed out , let alone that a growth rate anywhere near the 2.5 per cent necessary to stop unemployment from rising indefinitely is on the horizon . |