Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj] per " in BNC.
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| 1 | A planned budget for 1991 estimated at $80,000 million contained provision for a 15.7 per cent rise for the social sector and one of 41.2 per cent for the controversial National Solidarity ( Pronasol ) anti-poverty programme [ see below ] which had a budget of $1,000 million in 1990 . |
| 2 | I intend to concentrate on provision for the 18 per cent unstatemented pupils who remain in mainstream schools but who , as Warnock reminded us , have special needs . |
| 3 | I wish to make a simple plea about the 20 per cent . |
| 4 | The Steelworkers , financing their programme through a 1 per cent levy on union dues , provided training for reps in fighting union-busting methods in the early 1930s ; by 1985 , they had developed a full two-day residential course on ‘ Facing Management ’ , which includes introduction exercises , and a role play ( ‘ Handle with Care ’ ) on productivity bargaining ; the course also looks at Japanese management methods , quality circles and technological change . |
| 5 | In fact it took a series of political blunders on Callaghan 's part to spoil Labour 's chances of being re-elected , faute de mieux , as the responsible and sober ‘ party of government ’ : the seemingly endless postponement of the election while the party 's parliamentary position crumbled , requiring the prop of transparent chicanery ; the unenforceable wishful thinking of the 5 per cent pay limit , the last straw for the unions . |
| 6 | Mr John Prescott , Labour 's transport spokesman , condemned government transport policies , saying signalling staff cuts were a direct result of the 51 per cent cut in BR finances in the past five years . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , the Government was heading for more conflict after its confirmation of a 1.5 per cent public-sector pay rise led to protests from teachers and health workers . |
| 8 | The consortium described the agreement as " a back-handed deal " which did nothing to secure the future of the 2 per cent of lowland bogs which survive in England in a semi-natural state with rare plants and animals . |
| 9 | This page and View from City Road , Page 21 Dalgety stake : Como International , owned jointly by Elf Aquataine and Robert Holmes a Court , has reduced its holding below the 5 per cent level requiring disclosure . |
| 10 | The effect of the 25 per cent reduction in fares would be to place an inordinate burden on the ratepayers , particularly because this would be accompanied by a known loss of rate support grant . |
| 11 | Early explanations of frost weathering alighted on the simple and seemingly obvious effect of the 9 per cent volume expansion which accompanies the phase change from water to ice . |
| 12 | In the light of the 86 per cent . |
| 13 | We have gone from being the bread basket of Central America to being its basket case ; an international beggar with the largest per capita foreign debt in Latin America . |
| 14 | Below 60 per cent the exercise will not have an aerobic effect and only very fit people can gain any aerobic effect above the 85 per cent level ( see Table 3 ) . |
| 15 | At the same time , all EC currencies would move together as a bloc within the 4½ per cent Smithsonian band of fluctuation against the dollar ( the ‘ tunnel ’ ) . |
| 16 | Abulfez Elchibey , leader of the Azerbaijani Popular Front , was sworn in as President on June 16 , after receiving 59.4 per cent of the vote in a 76 per cent turnout in elections on June 7 ; there were five candidates in all . |
| 17 | There followed three nights of violence in the 80 per cent black area of Crown Heights , during which cars and barricades were burnt , shops looted , and running battles fought between youths and police . |
| 18 | There could be no more revealing insight into the Government 's priorities than their obsessive concentration on the 8.7 per cent . |
| 19 | Knighton is ready to offer the Manchester United boss a new deal on the 50.6 per cent shareholding which he sought to buy from Edwards for £10m , and which is now the subject of a damaging legal wrangle in the High Court . |
| 20 | If all industrialized countries were to increase their overseas aid to the 0.7 per cent of GNP recommended by the United Nations , it would cost an extra $50 billion a year . |
| 21 | The voluntary agreement commits the industry to a 50 per cent . |
| 22 | It was decided instead to adopt less strict targets for these areas and to tighten the target for the rest of the continent to a 60 per cent gap reduction . |
| 23 | On April 9 , 1991 , Michelin , the world 's largest tyre company , announced that it would be cutting its French workforce by 4,900 by the end of 1992 as part of a 15 per cent overall reduction in its 130,000-strong world-wide workforce , which would also result in job losses of 2,230 in the United States , 2,000 in Spain , and 800 in the United Kingdom . |
| 24 | They were to be abolished as part of a 50 per cent reduction in the armed forces . |
| 25 | Last week the firm said it hoped to agree a sale of part of the 61 per cent stake owned by American Express as part of a deal to inject new equity into the firm . |
| 26 | It seems set to grab a large part of the 15 per cent gap in the EEC 's joint research programme left by the demise of Super-SARA . |
| 27 | IF you still have some Christmas presents to buy , why not pay a visit to the shop at your local Historic Scotland monument and take advantage of the 10 per cent discount available to Friends ? |
| 28 | So why not take advantage of the 15 per cent discount offered to all Ideal Home subscribers until May 1993 ? |
| 29 | In his annual report to the Supreme Soviet Matiukhin said that he had resigned because ( i ) the government had taken no effective steps to solve the cash shortage ; ( ii ) inter-enterprise debt stood at 2,000,000 million roubles for which the Bank was criticized although it was following government policy ; and ( iii ) the Supreme Soviet was demanding a reduction of the 80 per cent interest rate to 50 per cent . |
| 30 | As well as competitive asking prices , Fairview offers a choice of cash benefits , including payment of legal fees and stamp duty , and the payment of a five per cent deposit or free management charges for a year . |